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.