delay printing characters in string to console js setTimeout code example

Example 1: how to set timeout for a div tag in html

<script>
  const timeout = document.getElementsByClassName('classname')
  setTimeout(hideElement, 1000) //milliseconds until timeout//
  function hideElement() {
    timeout.style.display = 'none'
</script>
<div class="classname">
  <span> &times; </span>

Example 2: javascript this in settimeout

function func() {
  this.var = 5;
  
  this.changeVar = function() {
    setTimeout(() => { //Don't use function, use arrow function so 'this' refers to 'func' and not window
      this.var = 10;
    }, 1000);
  }
}

var a = new func();
a.changeVar();