Question

I have the following function in my code. Here’s a simplified version:

$.ajax({
  url: $form.attr('action'),
  dataType: 'json',
  type: 'POST',
  data: $form.serializeArray(),
  success: function (json, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
    // delay here
    alert("hello");
  }

Is there some way that I can introduce a delay. For example a delay of 5 seconds into the above code?

Note that I need to replace the words // delay here with something that can give a delay if possible.

Answer 1

You can use setTimeout() with an anonymous function:

setTimeout(function() { /* your code here */ }, 5000);

This will run the code within that function after a 5-second delay.