Question

Hi guys I have a function which accepts this as a parameter – ‘this‘ referring to the dom element which upon clicked should run a function. The thing is that I want this function to be called after a small delay however passing the variable term this doesn’t work as when the function is executed ‘this‘ then doesn’t refer to the object in passed in the parameter but to the window object.

How can I get this done?

Answer 1

You could capture this:

var t = this;
window.setTimeout(function() {
    // use the t variable here
}, 2000);