Does jQuery offer an alternative to traditional timer - image swapping

I'm a jQuery beginner and I've stumbled upon a situation where with traditional JavaScript, I would use a timer and swap 开发者_如何学编程images to produce an animated effect.

Does jQuery offer any alternative to the traditional JavaScript timer and image-swap animation effect?

(I have around 5 images that I would like to swap every quarter of a second or so)

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jQuery.delay()

Set a timer to delay execution of subsequent items in the queue.

use it together with the jQuery.queue

Show the queue of functions to be executed on the matched elements.

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Instead of swapping images, you can have them all loaded, but set CSS property "display: none" on all of them, except the one you want to show, for which you would set "display: block".

Another common way of displaying an image is using CSS background-image property, and altering its offset. Historically this has been faster in many browsers than using a set of normal elements!