Check out my response to this question when it came up back in March:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg18931.html
Hope it helps.
--Erik
On 8/22/07, james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
