What s the easiest way to call a function every 5 seconds in jQuery

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JQuery  how to call a function every 5 seconds   I m looking for a way to automate the changing of images in a slideshow     I d rather not install any other 3rd party plugins if possible

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Both setInterval and setTimeout can work for you  as  Doug Neiner and  John Boker wrote both now point to setInterval   See here for some more explanation about both to see which suites you most and how to stop each of them

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you could register an interval on the page using setInterval  ie   setInterval function           code goes here that will be run every 5 seconds         5000

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Just a little tip for the first answer  If your function is already defined  reference the function but don t call it    So don t put any parentheses after the function name  Just like   my function      setInterval my function 10000

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you can use window setInterval and time must to be define in miliseconds  in below case the function will call after every single second  1000 miliseconds    lt script gt    var time   3670  window setInterval function          Time calculations for days  hours  minutes and seconds     var h   Math floor time   3600       var m   Math floor time   3600   60       var s   Math floor time   3600   60         Display the result in the element with id  demo    document getElementById  demo   innerHTML    h    h       m    m     s    s          If the count down is finished  write some text    if  time  lt  0        clearInterval x       document getElementById  demo   innerHTML    EXPIRED          time--     1000      lt  script gt

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The functions mentioned above execute no matter if it has completed in previous invocation or not  this one runs after every x seconds once the execution is complete     IIFE  function runForever         Do something here   setTimeout runForever  5000           Regular function with arguments function someFunction file  directory        Do something here   setTimeout someFunction  5000  file  directory       YES  setTimeout passes any extra args to      function being called

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A good example where to subscribe a setInterval    and use a clearInterval   to stop the forever loop   function myTimer         console log   each 1 second          var myVar   setInterval myTimer  1000     call this line to stop the loop    clearInterval myVar

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You don t need jquery for this  in plain javascript  the following will work  var intervalId   window setInterval function          call your function here    5000    To stop the loop you can use clearInterval intervalId

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