function to do something every 5 minutes!

[MJB3K]

Hi, how could you write a function that does something every 5 minutes?

for example: like every 5minutes write something 2 a textbox??

any ideas??


Regards,

Martin

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[wangbar]

Use setInterval which can call a function at predetermined intervals - you set the time in milliseconds so five minutes would be:

function doSomething(){
//write text etc...
}
setInterval(doSomething,300000)