setTimeout?
jQuery.fn.ajaxUpdater = function(url, interval){
var self = this;
function update(){
$.getJSON(url+'?'+(+new Date), function(data){
self.text( $(data).find('item') );
setTimeout(update, interval);
});
};
update();
});
$('#myEl').ajaxUpdater('bla.json', 2000);
(appending date to avoid caching)
On Jun 15, 12:50 pm, jwerd <lamerh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm grabbing an update from a json file, but I want to have it update
> perodically to the screen, overwriting what it found before... sort of
> like Prototype's Ajax Updater. Is this possible in Jquery? I scoured
> the groups to but only found a digg spy thing, which is sort of what
> I'm looking for but it was dated for 2007, so there's gotta be
> something new or is that it?
>
> Please help. TIA
>
> Jake
