Question

For some reason I can’t change HTML after a javascript timeout. Here’s the code I’m using:

setTimeout("$(\"#display p\").html(newDescription);", 250);

Is there something wrong with this? If I remove the timeout, the script works perfectly. Here’s that version:

$("#display p").html(newDescription);

I’m running Chrome 22 if that makes any difference

Answer 1

yes the first argument should be function.

var newDescription = 'The Description';
setTimeout(function(){
  $("#display p").html(newDescription);
}, 250);

OR

var newDescription = 'The Description',
    myfunc = function(){
       $("#display p").html(newDescription);
    };

setTimeout(myFunc, 250);

Additionally newDescription must be in a scope accessible to your function.