how to schedule ajax calls every N seconds?

Question

If I want a whole page to reload every N seconds, I would put something like this in the HTML: meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"5\"

Is there a sta

Answer 1

You could use setTimeout or setInterval (the latter is probably best suited to what you want to do).

setInterval(makeRequest, (10 * 1000));

...where makeRequest is a function that reloads some content via AJAX.