setTimeout and variables!!

[acidglitter]

i have a function that starts out..

function confirm(trID, data){

 

and inside it i have

setTimeout(okaythen(trID),2000);

 

 

after the function ends i have

function okaythen(trID){
document.getElementById('row_1_2').innerHTML = trID;
}

 

right now i'm just trying to get the <td> to show its id (trID) just to make sure it works, but it doesn't for some reason. if i change the setTimeout to setTimeout(okaythen('okay'),2000); then inside the <td> it shows 'okay', but for some reason it won't carry a variable... i spent forever trying to fix this. i also tried setTimeout("okaythen(" + trID + ")",2000); but that won't work either. does anyone know what i can do to fix this??

[nogray]

You'll lose the function scope in setTimeout, you can use global variables or the variable value.

 

e.g.

setTimeout("okaythen('" + trID + "')",2000); 

Notice the single quote ' before the " + to make the value as a string