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    copied!<p>this is my first stackoverflow question and I hope I didn't miss any relevant topics, however I didn't find an answer yet. I've been fiddeling around with a (probably simple) jquery task and I'm stuck. And, ehem, of course I'm a newbie to jquery, so please be kind :-)</p> <p>I'd like to do a simple flashing words cloudy thing, where different groups of words (list items) fade in and out with <em>individual delays</em>. I got this to work with a simple function which I call three times, for each of the three groups. I'd like to know if there's a way to combine these three functions, but still defining an individual delay for each array of words.</p> <p>Here's my fiddle: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/alani/eHthD/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/alani/eHthD/</a></p> <p>Maybe there's no way to put everything in one function and it's totally ok to use the long version? I don't know. It just seems totally inefficient to me...</p> <p>For quick view here's one of my functions:</p> <pre><code>var wordIndex = -1; (function () { var words1 = $(".cloud1"); function showNextWord() { ++wordIndex; words1.eq(wordIndex % words1.length) .fadeIn(500) .delay(1000) .fadeOut(1000, showNextWord); } showNextWord(); })(); </code></pre> <p>And this is part of my list</p> <pre><code>&lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class="cloud1"&gt;smoke&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="cloud1"&gt;denim&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="cloud1"&gt;eyebrow&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="cloud2"&gt;angle&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="cloud2"&gt;staple&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="cloud2"&gt;basket&lt;/li&gt; ... </code></pre> <p>Thanks everybody!</p>
 

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