Question

Can someone help me get started with a button timeout feature. All I want is a button (when clicked) it becomes inactive for 2 seconds. After which it is active again.

Answer 1

<input type="button" value="click" id="click" onclick="foo(this);"/>​

function foo(obj) {
    obj.disabled = true;
    setTimeout(function() {
        obj.disabled = false;
    }, 2000);
}​

LIVE DEMO

window.setTimeout on MDN:

Executes a code snippet or a function after specified delay.