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Jquery toggle timer auto close

I'm using the basic jquery function toggle to click open a sliding menu on a site I'm developing. What I'd like to do is to have the menu appear OPEN when the user comes to the page, but to automatically slide shut (visually) after 5s

As it is now, I created the menu button and when clicked, it opens and closes the div just fine. I actually had the div set to display:none to begin with, which essentially makes the div invisible unless the user clicks the menu button.

But now I'd like to have the menu appear on page-load (as it does when I removed the display:none in the css) but after 5 seconds, auto-slide off the screen just like what happens when a user clicks the menu icon at the top. The menu icon works to toggle it back and forth (as it should) but I don't want the menu to be static unless the user manually clicks the menu icon. The problem is that many won't know how to get the menu to disappear without clicking the button and if I add the auto slide (toggle) to the code after 5s it will visually help them see that it moves.

I tried to add the same DIV that is used in the header div on the page as a button within the menu itself, but it won't display for some reason. I thought maybe it would be a visual "CLOSE" button/img that people could see how to close it without having to use the menu icon in the header.

here's the development page

I'm not sure how to amend the javascript to add a timer function for it to close after 5s. I want it to close after 5s regardless if the user pressed the menu icon to re-open it.

foxymoron7

Have you tried something like:

$(window).load(function(){
$("div.fnav").delay(500).animate({width:'toggle'}); // set div to slide out 5 sec after page load
$("#navimg").click(function () {
    $("div.fnav").animate({width: 'toggle'}).delay(500).animite({width:'toggle'}); // set div to slide out 5 sec after click
});
});

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day6

ASKER

foxymoron7 the script definitely slides it out after 5 seconds of page loading, but doesn't autoclose if I've clicked the menu button. It just stays open. Any thoughts? I'll give you credit for this but it would be great to know how to make it autoclose after the menu clicks. I think your timer is based on window .load isn't it?

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day6

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Nice work!