AnimationEffectTimingReadOnly.delay

The delay property of the AnimationEffectTimingReadOnly object represents the number of milliseconds to delay the start of the animation.

Syntax

// Getting the delay in milliseconds
var animationDelay = animation.effect.timing.delay;

// Setting the delay in milliseconds 
animation.effect.timing.delay = 200;

Value

A number specifying the delay, in milliseconds, from the start of the animation's play cycle to the beginning of its active interval (the time index at which actual animation begins). Defaults to 0.

Examples

In the Growing and Shrinking Alice example, we set a delay of 2000 milliseconds (2 seconds) on an animation that shows a "game over" tile. At the end of the game, for two seconds a vignette is shown before the "game over" interface appears. Below you can see that even though we call play() immediately after setting the delay, the animation will wait two second before begining:

bringUI.effect.timing.delay = 2000;
bringUI.play();

Specifications

Browser compatibility

[1] The Web Animations API is only enabled by default in Firefox Developer Edition and Nightly builds. You can enable it in beta and release builds by setting the preference dom.animations-api.core.enabled to true, and can disable it in any Firefox version by setting this preference to false.

See also

• Web Animations API
• AnimationEffectReadOnly.timing returns a AnimationEffectTimingReadOnly object...
• ...while AnimationEffect.timing returns a mutable AnimationEffectTiming object.
• CSS's transition-delay and animation-delay