How to throttle callback of jQuery event?

Question

Ok, so I do search like in google, you type text in input and it gives you entries instantly. But I don\'t like that. I use something like that $(\"TEXTINPUT\").keyup(

Answer 1

Try :

var time_out;
$("TEXTINPUT").keyup(function(){
    clearTimeout(time_out);
    time_out = setTimeout(your_function, 500);
}

function your_function()
{
    /*CHECK DATABASE*/
}