Question

I am trying to use the jQuery setTimeout in order to call a method each x time interval:

 $('.text').blur(function () {
     doSmth();
 });

 $('.text').bind("paste", function (e) {
     setTimeout(function () {
         doSmth();
     }, 5);
 });

The timeout is not working , please advice !

Answer 1

What do you mean with “it’s not working”?Anyway setTimeout() is a Javascript function that triggers only once after the specified interval.

If you wan’t to trigger something every five second you should do:

var interval =  setInterval(doSmth, 5000);

Where doSmth is a function defined elsewhere and 5000 is the number of millisecond of the interval. If yo want to stop the execution just do:

clearInterval(interval);