Question

I’ve made script which change information from different site, its occure when i click on button, sometimes it takes 1-2 seconds to find info and display it, sometimes 10 or more seconds. i made a script which change some table rows etc in timeOut 5 seconds, how can i set timeOut if i dont know how long this search will go

$("div.dreamcast input.btn").click(function() {

    $.ajax({    
        success: function () {  
            setTimeout(function() {
                //i want to change results information here
                $('table.itt_results tbody tr:first th:contains("etc")').hide();

                },
                5000 //timeout 5s
            );
});

Answer 1

Within the succes function of the jQuery ajax call, the code gets executed as soon as the AJAX call has been successful. This way, you don’t have to know how long it takes, it will always be fine.

So no need for a setTimeout here.