Question

I have an application that requires a login and I also have an AJAX timer. I have read several posts on how to create a session timeout after a certain period of time. However, I want the session to end if the user hasn’t clicked a certain button for say, 5 minutes. Is there a way to reset the timer after every click?

Answer 1

Try this:

function logout() { 
    location.href = '/your/logout/page.aspx';
}

var timeout = setTimeout(300000, logout);
function resetTimeout() {
    clearTimeout(timeout);
    timeout = setTimeout(300000, logout);
}

document.onclick = resetTimeout;