Run JavaScript function at regular time interval

Question

I am currently building a website to host software. What I want is to add to the project pages is a slideshow of screenshots cycling, changing images about every 5 seconds.

Answer 1

You want the setInterval function.

setInterval(function() {
  // This will be executed every 5 seconds
}, 5000); // 5000 milliseconds

Basic reference: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_setinterval.asp (please ignore the reference to the "lang" parameter)

More indepth reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.setInterval