Best Practice to Pause in Javascript

Asked Mar 29 '12 at 15:50

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What is the best way to pause in JavaScript. I have attempted to use the setTimeout() function before, but I really got confused on how it works.

asked Mar 29 '12 at 15:50

user1187968

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pausing what? what are trying to accomplish? – Fabrizio Calderan Mar 29 '12 at 15:51
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and possible duplicate of [Javascript sleep](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951021/javascript-sleep) – Fabrizio Calderan Mar 29 '12 at 16:05

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var pauseTime = 1000; //this is in milliseconds
setTimeout(runThisFunction,pauseTime);

function runThisFunction(){
 alert("i waited a second to run!");
}

it works by waiting x milliseconds then calls the function you pass .. in this case the function name is runThisFunction

answered Mar 29 '12 at 15:52

samccone

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If you replace the alert with a print statement, it will NOT guarantee that the function will run for x milliseconds. – user1187968 Mar 29 '12 at 16:36