# Simple delay

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-delay/141655>\
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**Created:** [March 22, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-delay/141655 "2005-03-22T03:38:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-delay/141655/1 "2005-03-22T03:38:31Z")

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Hello. I have a problem 😟 , I want to use setInterval to replace the bad line:

for (k=0;k\<10000;k++){}

I looked for an example or something which could help me, but I don’t understand how to use setInterval and clearInterval. Thanks for any idea