Somtimes you may like to pause your javascript for a while (milliseconds). Here is a simple script i found from sean.co.uk that do exactly this:

<script language=”javascript”>

// www.sean.co.uk

function pausecomp(millis) 
{
var date = new Date();
var curDate = null;

do { curDate = new Date(); } 
while(curDate-date < millis);
} 

</script>