Sunday, 19 January 2014

jQuery Set Some Time Delay for Function / Method Execution with SetTimeout Function

Here I will explain how to execute function in jQuery with some time delay using setTimeout function or jQuery set some time delay for function or method execution with setTimeout function.
                                                                                   
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Execute function with some time delay

To execute function with some time delay we need to write the code like as shown below


$(function() {
setTimeout("ShowTime()", 1000);
});
If you observe above code ShowTime function will execute after one second delay for complete example check below code

Example:


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1">
<title>jQuery display current time on webpage</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
setTimeout("ShowTime()", 1000);
});
function ShowTime() {
var dt = new Date();
$("#lblTime").html(dt.toLocaleTimeString());
setTimeout("ShowTime()", 1000); // Here 1000(milliseconds) means one 1 Sec
}
</script>
</head>
<body >
<form id="form1">
<div>
jQuery Display time second by second.
<label id="lblTime" style=" font-weight:bold"></label>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Live Demo

For live demo check below time for every one second function will execute and update the time




jQuery Display time second by second. 

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