Repeating setTimeout

Question

I am trying to repeat setTimeout every 10 seconds. I know that setTimeout by default only waits and then performs an action one time. How can I rep

Answer 1

Using jQuery, this is what you could do:

function updatePage() {

var interval = setTimeout(updatePage, 10000); // 10' Seconds

    $('a[href]').click(function() {
      $(this).data('clicked', true);
      clearInterval(interval); // Clears Upon Clicking any href Link
      console.log('Interval Cleared!');
    });
   // REPLACE 'YOUR_FUNCTION_NAME' function you would like to execute
    setTimeout(YOUR_FUNCTION_NAME, 500);

} // Function updatePage close syntax

updatePage(); // call the function again.