Question

I want a jquery timer like setTimeout/setinterval to call a function repeatedly for every particular no. of seconds. I have tried both. But it call only once.

Answer 1

setTimeout is called only once after the elapsed time whereas setInterval is called repeatedly. For example if you want to invoke some function every 5 seconds:

window.setInterval(function() {
    someFunction();    
}, 5000);

It doesn’t require any plugins, it is pure javascript. Even if there were jQuery plugins they would eventually use setTimeout/setInterval.