Question

I have a span element like this:

  <span id="test" name="testing" >Test </span>

The text of span i.e Test might change based on other operations in the page.
I want to automatically refresh the span text say after 2 seconds.
How can I achieve this using jquery?
Please help.

Answer 1

You can use the javascript setInterval to create a timer like effect. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.setInterval

Code will be something like:

setInterval(function(){
    $('#test').text('newtext');
}, 2000);