How to trigger an onkeyup event that's delayed until a user pauses their typing?

Question

I have a textarea where people enter some text (naturally), and I want to make it so that an AJAX request is made every now and then to get some suggestions regarding what t

Answer 1

If you are using lodash.js (or underscore.js) you can use the debounce function.

Example (jQuery used for keyup):

$('#myTextArea').keyup(_.debounce(function() {
  alert('hello');
}, 500));