setTimeout function in javascript

Question

Here is what I want to do.

Is there a way I can throw a temporary alert which fades away in 4 sec so user knows he has clicked the button and the results are getting generated.

Why all this: When user clicks a button, I retrieve id's of checked rows and build a dynamic html table to display the results in a showmodal dialog window.each row in seperate divs.

Why I used setTimeout: I noticed that the showmodal dialog would appear before the html was built resulting at times with an empty page. So to give my dynamic html time to build I call the setTimeout function to call another function "setTimeout('CallModFunction()',4000);" and within this I call the showmodal dialog, so the html displays perfectly on the dialog window.

My question is: Is there a way I can throw a temporary alert which fades away in 4 sec so user knows he has clicked the button and the results are getting generated.

Answer 1

Check out Noty: http://needim.github.com/noty/