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

I would personally use a setInterval that would monitor the textarea for changes and only perform AJAX callbacks when it detects a change is made. every second should be fast and slow enough.