Question

Basically I have a function that passes this… I need this function to be executed 1/3 seconds after a button got clicked so what I thought of doing is:

setTimeout("somefunction(this)", 3000);

As I know that setTimeout(“”, x); works with “”
but it doesn’t work.

I’ve tried without the “” and it wont work either I tried to:

  setTimeout("somefunction("+this+")", 3000);

and still won’t work. Did like an hour of attempts at this.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to use a closure

var that = this;
setTimeout( function(){ somefunction(that); }, 3000);