Reset setinterval on click

Question

I\'ve written this simple Carousel. At the moment I\'m using setInterval to run my nextSlide function at certain intervals. I want to defer the timer from running when a user cl

Answer 1

You can save the return value of setInterval in a variable to refer to it later - that way you can cancel it if you need to, or restart it.

See this MDC article for more details.

The basics are:

intervalID = setInterval(flashText, 1000);

//do something...

clearInterval(intervalID);