setTimeout or setInterval?

Question

As far as I can tell, these two pieces of javascript behave the same way:

Option A:

function myTimeoutFunction()
{
    doStuff();
           


        

Answer 1

I think SetInterval and SetTimeout are different. SetInterval executes the block according to the time set while, SetTimeout executes the block of code once.

Try these set of codes after the timeout countdown seconds:

setInterval(function(e){
    alert('Ugbana Kelvin');
}, 2000);

and then try

setTimeout(function(e){
    alert('Ugbana Kelvin');
}, 2000);

You can see the differences for yourself.