Question

I am using this plugin and I want to update the timer.

I can start the countdown timer at 5000 milliseconds left like this:

$('#CountdownTimer').countdown({ remaining : 5000});

But when I try to update it with this call, I guess I initialize it again or something because the timer doesn’t update like I assumed

$('#CountdownTimer').countdown('update', 2000);

It basically speeds up the countdown timer and if I run this again, it speeds it even more… But what I want to do is reset it to 2000 milliseconds

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Haven’t used this function before, but it looks like this should work:

$('#CountdownTimer').countdown('destroy');

Just call it before reinitializing the countdown.

EDIT

In the library, change the line:

tick_interval = setInterval(tick, 1000);

to read

if (tick_interval == null) tick_interval = setInterval(tick, 1000);