I am learning JavaScript and I have learned recently about JavaScript timing events. When I learned about setTimeout at W3Schools, I noticed a strange figure which I didn’t run into before. They are using double quotes and then call the function....

I am trying to use the new async features and I hope solving my problem will help others in the future. This is my code which is working:    async function asyncGenerator() {     // other code     while (goOn) {       // other code       var fileLi...

I'm trying to use setTimeout to execute an anonymous function that I pass information into and I'm having trouble. This (hard-coded version) would work just fine:  setTimeout(function(){alert("hello");},1000); setTimeout(function(){...

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I try to make a page to go to the startpage after eg. 10sec of inactivity (user not clicking anywhere). I use jQuery for the rest but the set/clear in my test function are pure javascript.  In my frustation I ended up with something like this funct...

So I am working on a music program that requires multiple javascript elements to be in sync with another. I've been using setInterval which works really well initially however over time the elements gradually become out of sync which with a mus...

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I am trying to make a seconds countdown with Javascript.  Here is my HTML  <div id="ban_container" class="error center">Please wait         <span id="ban_countdown" style="font-weight:bold">         45<...

timer =  window.setTimeout(function () {     //do something     window.setTimeout(arguments.callee, 1000); }, 1000);   the result is that these codes work well.  but why doesn't it cause the error below?     Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded   w...

I am looking at some existing code in a web application. I saw this:  window.setTimeout(function () { ... })  Is this the same as just executing the function content right away?...