Question

The setTimeout() method is used to _______________

(a) Make the event sleep

(b) Register a function to be invoked after a certain time

(c) Invoke an event after a certain time

(d) Time for iteration

The question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

The above asked question is from JavaScript in Web Browsers in portion Server-Side and Client-Side Scripting of JavaScript

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) Register a function to be invoked after a certain time

Easy explanation: The setTimeout(), which registers a function to be invoked after a specified amount of time. The setTimeout() method calls a function or evaluates an expression after a specified number of milliseconds.