setTimeout function

[thisisnuts123]

function sitepop(ret_value){
var uuu = ret_value;
setTimeout("alert(uuu);", 2000);
}

 

this gives me uuu un defiend any ideas to why?

if i change this to the followingthen it works

 

 

function sitepop(ret_value){
var uuu = ret_value;
alert(uuu);
}

 

 

how can i do this with a delay??

 

thanks!!!

[mainewoods]

the uuu variable has only local scope and is destroyed after the function returns.  try this instead:

function sitepop(ret_value){
var uuu = ret_value;
setTimeout("alert('" + uuu + "');", 2000); //i'm adding single quotes around the parameter
}