I have a function with in setIntervel(), and I want to stop the execution of this function explicitly.How I can do this ???The function is..

function autoLoad(chatboxtitle, msgId) {
    setInterval(function() {
        if (msgId != '') {
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "../WebService1.asmx/GetMessagesDetail",
                data: '{ "messageID": "' + msgId + '" }',
                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                dataType: "json",
                async: true,
                cache: false,
                success: function(msg) {
                    $("#chatbox_" + chatboxtitle + ".chatboxcontent").empty();
                    $("#chatbox_" + chatboxtitle + ".chatboxcontent").append(msg.d);
                    $contentLoadTriggered = false;
                },
                error: function(x, e) {
                    alert("error");
                }
            });
        }
    }, 8000);
}

I have a function with in setIntervel(), and I want to stop the execution of this function explicitly.How I can do this ???The function is..

function autoLoad(chatboxtitle, msgId) {
    setInterval(function() {
        if (msgId != '') {
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "../WebService1.asmx/GetMessagesDetail",
                data: '{ "messageID": "' + msgId + '" }',
                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                dataType: "json",
                async: true,
                cache: false,
                success: function(msg) {
                    $("#chatbox_" + chatboxtitle + ".chatboxcontent").empty();
                    $("#chatbox_" + chatboxtitle + ".chatboxcontent").append(msg.d);
                    $contentLoadTriggered = false;
                },
                error: function(x, e) {
                    alert("error");
                }
            });
        }
    }, 8000);
}

• javascript
• jquery
• setinterval

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• 3 Store the return of setInterval() into a variable, and call clearInterval() on it. – Michael Berkowski Commented Jul 11, 2012 at 13:49
• 1 Further to what Michael said, did you consider reading some setInterval() documentation? – nnnnnn Commented Jul 11, 2012 at 13:51

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Sorted by: Reset to default 10

If you mean exit the function but not stop the interval (so the function will fire again) you need to simply return from the function.

If you mean stop the interval, i.e. stop the function ever firing again, you need to assign a reference to the interval in a variable and then clear it when/as required.

var intie = setInterval(function() { alert('hello'); }, 5000);
clearInterval(intie);