[jQuery] Re: timing of multiple "Cycle" slides (Cycle Plugin)

[malsup]

> I working on a site that uses 4 instances of the Cycle plugin to
> rotate divs filled with text. The client loves it, but they don't want
> them to all cycle at the same time. They want box 1 to cycle, short
> pause, box 2 to cycle, short pause...
> And I can't figure it out (obviously). Any help would be awesome. The
> page ishttp://client.grcmc.org/wip/grcvb/visit.phpand the portion in
> question is at the bottom of the page, the "Hot Happenings Around
> Town". Right now only the first 2 boxes have content to cycle.


Start the slideshows separately and use the 'delay' option.  Something
like this should stagger your 4 slideshows:

$('#hot_happenings .hh_content td .holder').each(function(i) {
    $(this).cycle({
        delay:   -8000 + (2000 * (i+1)),
        timeout:  8000,
        pause:    1
    });
});