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Is there a sleep/wait javascript function for firefox?

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Re: Is there a sleep/wait javascript function for firefox?

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Jun 6th, 2006
What you usually do is what Tom has suggested, but you would invoke a call to the code that you want to execute after timeout.

So if you had an algorithm like such:

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function myFunction(){
   doSomething();
   wait(500);
   doSomethingElse();
}

You would implement this with:

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function myFunction(){
   doSomething();
   setTimeout(function(){doSomethingElse();}, 500);
}

This effective 'pauses' the execution of your code.
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