Question

I’m working on an ajax web appliation which contains many running timeouts and intervals. And now I need to clear all running timeouts and intervals sometimes. Is there a simple way to stop everything without need to store every timeout and interval ID and iterate through them and clear them?

Answer 1

Updated answer after reading the duplicate I closed this question with –

It works and tested in Chrome on OSX

// run something
var id1 = setInterval(function() { console.log("interval", new Date())}, 1000);
var id2 = setTimeout(function()  { console.log("timeout 1", new Date())}, 2000);
var id3 = setTimeout(function()  { console.log("timeout 2", new Date())}, 5000); // not run
          setTimeout(function()  { console.log("timeout 3", new Date())}, 6000); // not run

// this will kill all intervals and timeouts too in 3 seconds. 
// Change 3000 to anything larger than 10

var killId = setTimeout(function() {
  for (var i = killId; i > 0; i--) clearInterval(i)
}, 3000);

console.log(id1, id2, id3, killId); // the IDs set by the function I used

NOTE: Looked at window objects that had a typeof number – funnily enough IE assigns an 8 digit number, FF a single digit starting with 2