jQuery: Wait/Delay 1 second without executing code
You can also just delay some operation this way:
setTimeout(function (){ // Something you want delayed.}, 5000); // How long do you want the delay to be (in milliseconds)?
$.delay is used to delay animations in a queue, not halt execution.
Instead of using a while loop, you need to recursively call a method that performs the check every second using setTimeout:
var check = function(){ if(condition){ // run when condition is met } else { setTimeout(check, 1000); // check again in a second }}check();
ES6 setTimeout
setTimeout(() => { console.log("we waited 204586560000 ms to run this code, oh boy wowwoowee!");}, 204586560000);Edit: 204586560000 ms is the approximate time between the original question and this answer... assuming I calculated correctly.