setTimout help

Question

I have a small piece of javascript that I would like to use but need a delay before it's activated.

function sglClick(url) {
    window.setTimeout('location.href="http://'"+url",1500);
}

This is not working and I'm really stuck here. Wish I knew a bit more javascript. Can someone please help?

Thanks

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Here is what I now have

function send(){

}

function sglClick(url) {
//    window.location.href="http://"+url;
    setTimeout(function send() { location.href = "http://" + url; },1500);
}

Answer 1

try this

function sglClick(url) {
    setTimeout(function() { location.href = "http://" + url; },1500);
}

This is using an anonymous function to house your code. It should take approx 1.5 seconds to fire. I say approx because JavaScript is single threaded, and other function calls/etc can actually make the interval fire at a slightly different time (but 9/10 this is a non-issue)

It is also assuming you're sending things like this to the function

sglClick('www.google.com');

As your code is prefixing the argument with http://

I've always used this function as just simply setTimeout(), not as a method of the window object.