Question

Just curious, I have this function:

    function detectChanges() 
{                   
    sendAjax('reload', num_rows, '',
        function(data) 
        { 
            $('#container').html(data);                  
        });
}

Write it:

   detectChanges();

Should I just use setInterval to repeat this function every 5 seconds or is there a better, cleaner jQuery alternative?

Answer 1

It’s not clear what you’re trying to do, but you probably don’t want to be polling something every 5 seconds, ESPECIALLY if you’re going to make an AJAX call to the server every 5 seconds.

Perhaps you can use jQuery.change() – http://api.jquery.com/change/