Question

What is the timed out function in jquery ?

setTimeout("searchClusterAction(action)",3000);

function searchClusterAction(action)
{
        var url = action
        $(location).attr('href',url);
}

on using timedout I’m getting error on line2

var action = "/search/perform/1584/xyz/["1","2","3","4,5,6"]/json
setTimeout('searchClusterAction('+action+')',3000);

Answer 1

The setTimeout() function allows JavaScript to make a note to run the given function X milliseconds in the future. (By the way, you should pass functions, not strings to setTimeout(), no matter what w3Schools says)

One caveat: Don’t call the function in the setTimeout() call like so:

setTimeout(foo(),1000);

as it will run foo() and then pass the result of foo to setTimeout(). Simply:

setTimeout(function(){ foo(); },1000);

Using setTimeout() for large values