I want to delay a link for a period of 500 with javascript

Issue

I've been looking through the Stackoverflow questions, trying to get help with a simple link delay; I want to put it around a div, and I can't make heads or tails of the examples I've found.

So far, I understand that I need to halt the native function of href, but I don't know how to do that. The code is still very alien to me. Help?

Solution

Set your href attribute as href="javascript:delay('URL')" and JavaScript:

function delay (URL) {
    setTimeout( function() { window.location = URL }, 500 );
}

Answered By - gurvinder372