How to create javascript delay function [duplicate]
You do not need to use an anonymous function with setTimeout. You can do something like this:
setTimeout(doSomething, 3000);function doSomething() { //do whatever you want here}
Ah yes. Welcome to Asynchronous execution.
Basically, pausing a script would cause the browser and page to become unresponsive for 3 seconds. This is horrible for web apps, and so isn't supported.
Instead, you have to think "event-based". Use setTimeout to call a function after a certain amount of time, which will continue to run the JavaScript on the page during that time.
You can create a delay using the following example
setInterval(function(){alert("Hello")},3000);Replace 3000 with # of milliseconds
You can place the content of what you want executed inside the function.