Can I use .delay() together with .animate() in jQuery?
If you add the stop before the delay it works just fine:
$('.cart_button, .cart_module').hover(function() { $('.cart_module').stop(true, true).delay(100).animate({top:'39px'}, 400); }, function() { $('.cart_module').stop(true, true).animate({top: -cartHeight}, 250);});
Looks like there may have been updates to jQuery in this vein since 2011. In Chrome I can use this sans timeout calls:
$('.thing').hover(function(){ $(".thing").delay(2000).animate({top:'39px'},{duration:500});}
I've always managed this kind of things with the help of core setTimeout and clearTimeout js functions.
Here is an example on jsFiddle
Take a look at jquery.hoverIntent plugin too, it gives you a timeout on hover and out events