How to add 5 second delay to onClick window.open?

Question

I have a code that hides multiple div's with a sliding action with one click on a text link. I need to add an open.window to the text link also, that will open a url in another window after a few seconds delay.

So with one click I want to hide a group of div's, and open a url in another window after a short delay, so that the sliding action can be seen before the url is opened.

I have this code that works to hide the div's with sliding action ...

$("#hide-content").click(function () {
$(".otherContainers").hide('slide',{direction: "right"}, 1000);
});

And this for the text link ....

<div id="hide-content"><a href="#" class="showHideContent" style="text-decoration:none" onclick="window.open('http://google.com')">hide and visit</a>
</div>

I've tried adding a delay with this but it's not working ...

onclick="setTimeout('window.open(\'http://google.com');'5000;"

Any ideas? Thanks!

Here's a Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/eeyipes/Jf6wM/13/

Answer 1

Your parenthese and quotes aren't balanced. Try:

onclick="setTimeout('window.open(\'http://google.com\')', 5000);"