How to set time-out for HTML messages / notifications?

Question

I have messages to first time users and new registers enabled. What's the best way to make the HTML notification dissappear automatticaly after X seconds? Yes, the user can click on the X icon to manually close the message, but it would be nice if we (admin) could set number of seconds after which the notification(s) would automatically disappear.

Answer 1

In the "qa-content/qa-page.js" file, find (arround line 25)

function qa_reveal(elem, type, callback)
{
    if (elem)
        $(elem).slideDown(400, callback);
}

 

replace with

function qa_reveal(elem, type, callback)
{
    if (elem)
        $(elem).slideDown(400, callback).delay(2000).slideUp(400);
}

This should do about what you are looking for (in this case the "time out" for the notice display is set to 2 sec (2000 ms).

However, this is a hack in the core, not a possibility to set it via the admin panel as you suggest