javascript - jquery delay toggle searchbar

Question

I'm new to coding and I'm trying to get my searchbar to toggle when hovering over a button. I want it to toggle with a delay. Here's what I've come up with so far:

$( document ).ready(function() {
    console.log( "ready!" );
    $("#search-form").hover(
      function(){
          $("#search-input").delay(700).toggleClass("collapse");
      }
  )
});

And here the HTML:

<form id="search-form" style="display:flex-end;" class="form-inline my-2 my-lg-0">
          <button class="btn btn-search" type="submit" data-toggle="collapse">
          </button>
          <input id="search-input" class="collapse form-control" type="text" placeholder="Search..." name="search">
        </form>

So the toggle works, but it seems to just ignore the delay. Where did I go wrong? Not sure if relevant, but I'm using bootstrap 4.5.
Appreciate the help!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65540647/jquery-delay-toggle-searchbar

Answer 1

From the jQuery API documentation:

The .delay() method is best for delaying between queued jQuery effects. Because it is limited—it doesn't, for example, offer a way to cancel the delay—.delay() is not a replacement for JavaScript's native setTimeout function, which may be more appropriate for certain use cases. (https://api.jquery.com/delay/)

It is not perfectly documented (as far as I can tell), but toggleClass() is not a function that uses the built-in effects queue.

Easiest solution is to use the vanilla window.setTimeout() function:

$( document ).ready(function() {
    console.log("ready!");
    $("#search-form").hover(function() {
      window.setTimeout(function() {
          $("#search-input").toggleClass("collapse");
      }, 700)
    });
});

PS: The above solution, while it will technically work, it will not behave how you'd expect to, when you're moving fast on/off the form with the mouse pointer. See the simulation below:

$( document ).ready(function() {
    console.log("ready!");
    $("#search-form").hover(function() {
      window.setTimeout(function() {
          $("#search-input").toggleClass("collapse");
      }, 700)
    });
});

/* Border - just to highlight the form */
#search-form {
  border: 2px solid red;
}

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="search-form" style="display:flex-end;" class="form-inline my-2 my-lg-0">
          <button class="btn btn-search" type="submit" data-toggle="collapse">BUTTON
          </button>
          <input id="search-input" class="collapse form-control" type="text" placeholder="Search..." name="search">
        </form>