Wait 5 seconds before executing next line

Question

This function below doesn’t work like I want it to; being a JS novice I can’t figure out why.

I need it to wait 5 seconds before checking whether the newState is -1.

Currently, it doesn’t wait, it just checks straight away.

function stateChange(newState) {   setTimeout('', 5000);    if(newState == -1) {     alert('VIDEO HAS STOPPED');   } } 

Answer 1

You have to put your code in the callback function you supply to setTimeout:

function stateChange(newState) {     setTimeout(function () {         if (newState == -1) {             alert('VIDEO HAS STOPPED');         }     }, 5000); } 

Any other code will execute immediately.