how to wait in jquery before submiting form?

Question

This is my jquery code:

 $('#txndatetime_reload_uk').val(values[2]);
 $('#customerid_reload_uk').val(sanderEmail);
  setTimeout(6000); 
   // alert('ok');
 $( '#activate_form_uk').submit();

I want to wait before submit the form for 6 seconds.

But setTimeout(6000); is not working.

What am I doing wrong in it?

[Documentation on window.setTimeout](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/window.setTimeout) might help you. — Josh Harrison, Jul 23 '14 at 08:44
possible duplicate of [JQuery, setTimeout not working](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1495903/jquery-settimeout-not-working) — V31, Jul 23 '14 at 08:48

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 23 '14 at 08:45

5

Try

setTimeout(function () {
    $('#activate_form_uk').submit()
}, 6000)

setTimeout() takes two arguments:

function to execute
amount of millisecond to wait before calling that function.

edited Jul 23 '14 at 08:45

Josh Harrison

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answered Jul 23 '14 at 08:42

Vlas Bashynskyi

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '14 at 08:44

setTimeout runs asynchronously. So directly after it is called $('#activate_form_uk').submit(); gets executed. You need to pass a callback to setTimeout which gets executed after the 6 seconds:

setTimeout(function() { $( '#activate_form_uk').submit(); }, 6000);

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 23 '14 at 08:44

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Use like below,

 setTimeout(function(){$( '#activate_form_uk').submit()}, 6000);

answered Jul 23 '14 at 08:44

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 23 '14 at 08:48

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Use .delay()

$('#activate_form_uk').delay(6000).submit()

answered Jul 23 '14 at 08:48

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how to wait in jquery before submiting form?

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