Delay

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://github.com/jonleighton/date_input/raw/master/date_input.css">
<script src="http://github.com/jonleighton/date_input/raw/master/jquery.date_input.js"></script>
<span class="test">Lol</span>

JavaScript

$(function() {
    var class = '.test';
    $(class).html('test');
 alert($(class).html());
});