Question

So if I have the following:

<script type="text/javascript" src="offsite file I am referencing"></script>

and I simply want to delay the execution of calling that file using settimeout, how would I go about that?

Very strange in that I would have no problem using settimeout on a simple function, but I am kind of stumped in this seemingly more simple situation.

My thought would be I could just make a function that calls that file after x amount of time, but calling the file in the function seems to be escaping me.

Answer 1

you are almost there.

in your settimeout callback function do the following:

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = "http://whatever.com/the/script.js";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);