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A: The most important thing about using timeouts is to create a global variable, a “handle”, by which you can clear the timeout if you need to. The example below defines two functions delayAction() that sets the timeout to execute in 500 milliseconds and cancelAction() which aborts the action. The script inserts two action buttons into the page to trigger these function calls.
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