Javascript: Run setInterval only once [duplicate]

Question

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setInterval - How to fire only once?

I would like to run the following code only once, so after 2 seconds it will change the iframe's src, but won't try to do it again and again.

<script type="text/javascript">
    setInterval(function () {document.getElementById('iframe').src = "http://www.y.com";}, 2000);
    </script>

Answer 1

You're looking for setTimeout(), which does exactly that.

Answer 2

yep...

window.setTimeout(function(){
        // code to run after 5 seconds...
}, 5000);

or by taking your method to outer context

function myMethod(){
    // code to run after 5 seconds...
};

window.setTimeout(myMethod, 5000);

The latter is useful if you have a method you don't plan to execute ONLY wit that timeout.