The simple answer is that there is no such function.
The closest thing you have is:
var millisecondsToWait = 500; setTimeout(function() { // Whatever you want to do after the wait }, millisecondsToWait);
Note that you especially don’t want to busy-wait (e.g. in a spin loop), since your browser is almost certainly executing your JavaScript in a single-threaded environment.
Here are a couple of other SO questions that deal with threads in JavaScript:
And this question may also be helpful:
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