Thanks Erik that did the trick! - David Dexter
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Beeson Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:59 PM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] Delay on keypress You basically want to have a timer that gets "canceled" if a key is pressed before it executes. Something like this: var search_timeout = undefined; $(...).bind('keyup', function() { if(search_timeout != undefined) { clearTimeout(search_timeout); } var $this = this; // save reference to 'this' so we can use it in timeout function search_timeout = setTimeout(function() { search_timeout = undefined; // do stuff with $this here }, 500); }); The 500 is the delay in ms. All that undefined checking might not be necessary, I'm just a paranoid programmer :) Good luck. --Erik On 3/15/07, blemming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to put together a live search input for an internal app I'm > working on and I can't seem to figure out how to delay the ajax call to only > fire if the user hasn't typed a character for half a second or so. That > way, the request isn't firing after every character is entered as the user > is typing. > > Here is what I'm using, but I would like to build in some functionality > $('#search').bind('keyup',function() { > str = $('#search').val(); > if(str.length >= 3){ > $.ajax(.....) > } > } > > Thanks for the help..... > > Cheers, David > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Delay-on-keypress-tf3412467.html#a9508255 > Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
