Javascipt Timer Help

JavaScript
1

I need to create a timer that closes a modal box and then jumps the url that was clicked on in the html.

What would be the best way to execute this?

2

add attribute rel to a links, for example rel=“open_modal” then


var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++)
{
  if(links[i].getAttribute('rel') == 'open_modal')
  {
    links[i].onclick = function()
    {
        //code for open modal
        var hrf = this.getAttribute('href');
        setTimeout(function() { 
            //code for close modal
            window.open(hrf, 'mywin', '_self');
       }, 5000);
        return false;
    }
  }
}

i hope this helps, if you use jQuery you can do this much easier, when I say much easier I mean with less code