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This code sequences the appearance of three bits of text:

 function omen() {

$('#north').delay(1600).animate({opacity:'1.0'}, 2400, function() {

$('#east').delay(2400).animate({opacity:'1.0'}, 2400, function() {

$('#west').delay(800).animate({opacity:'1.0'}, 2400, function() {

// etc...// });

   });

 });

}

I'd like to make the delays a random amount, within certain parameters, eg

   var randly = [ 10, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1200 ]

      dly = Math.floor(Math.random() *randly.length);

  

So: can you do something like this with jQ:

    $('#north').delay('dly').animate({opacity:'1.0'}, 2400       ?

Later: 

yep you can: you make the random choice a function, then you have to insert that function name into the brackets after '.delay':

not

$('#north').delay('dl()') ... this gets treated as zero.

Couple of updates:

1.  This doesn't work with hide() and show(), but does with animate()

2.  Tried  var D = dl() for the animation function: doesn't work.