[jquery] How to fire AJAX request Periodically?

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" Content="5">

This script reloads or refresh the page after every 5 seconds. But I want to do it using jQuery and AJAX call. Is it possible?

You can use setTimeout or setInterval.

The difference is - setTimeout triggers your function only once, and then you must set it again. setInterval keeps triggering expression again and again, unless you tell it to stop

I tried the below code,

    function executeQuery() {
  $.ajax({
    url: 'url/path/here',
    success: function(data) {
      // do something with the return value here if you like
    }
  });
  setTimeout(executeQuery, 5000); // you could choose not to continue on failure...
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  // run the first time; all subsequent calls will take care of themselves
  setTimeout(executeQuery, 5000);
});

This didn't work as expected for the specified interval,the page didn't load completely and the function was been called continuously. Its better to call setTimeout(executeQuery, 5000); outside executeQuery() in a separate function as below,

function executeQuery() {
  $.ajax({
    url: 'url/path/here',
    success: function(data) {
      // do something with the return value here if you like
    }
  });
  updateCall();
}

function updateCall(){
setTimeout(function(){executeQuery()}, 5000);
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  executeQuery();
});

This worked exactly as intended.

Yes, you could use either the JavaScript setTimeout() method or setInterval() method to invoke the code that you would like to run. Here's how you might do it with setTimeout:

function executeQuery() {
  $.ajax({
    url: 'url/path/here',
    success: function(data) {
      // do something with the return value here if you like
    }
  });
  setTimeout(executeQuery, 5000); // you could choose not to continue on failure...
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  // run the first time; all subsequent calls will take care of themselves
  setTimeout(executeQuery, 5000);
});