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rosspenman
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You can use a `setTimeout` to delay the execution of a block of code. For example:

jQuery.noConflict();
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
var intervalTime = 50,
div = jQuery(“.animate”),
st = div.text(),
timer, count = 0,
total = st.length;
div.html(“”).css(“visibility”, “visible”);

setTimeout(function() {
timer = setInterval(showLetters, intervalTime);
}, 3000);

function showLetters() {
if (count < total) {
div.html(div.text().split(“_”).join(“”) + st.charAt(count) + “”);
count++;
} else {
clearInterval(timer);
}
}
});

And btw, to get code to look good on this forum, select it all, hit the ‘Code’ button, and make sure there’s a line break before and after it.