hi, I have a small jQuery script, that get some data over the server on every keypress by the user, but I don't to perform such action every time when the user presses a key, specially if between key presses happens in short amount of time. How do I delay this event?
Here is my script $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]').keyup(function(e){ if (e.target.value != ''){ $.get('/main/search_item/', {search_item:e.target.value}, function(data){ $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]').html(data); } ); } }); thanks james