The following will do the trick i guess:
var timeout;
$('#search').keyup(function(){
clearTimeout(timeout);
timeout = setTimeout($.ajax(),200);
}
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Dragon-Fly999 <dragon-fly...@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi, my page allows the user to enter a number in a text box and a
> search request is sent to the server (if the user stops typing for 200
> ms) using AJAX. The following is the desired behavior.
>
> (1) User starts typing a number in the text box. As the user is
> typing, no search requests are sent to the server.
> (2) Once the user stops typing (i.e. no key events for 200 ms), use
> $.post() to execute a search.
>
> What is a good way to detect that the user hasn't typed anything for
> 200 ms? Is there anything in JQuery that I can use? Thank you.
