Resetting a setTimeout

Question

You can store a reference to that timeout, and then call clearTimeout on that reference.

// in the example above, assign the result
var timeoutHandle = window.setTimeout(...);

// in your click function, call clearTimeout
window.clearTimeout(timeoutHandle);

// then call setTimeout again to reset the timer
timeoutHandle = window.setTimeout(...);

clearTimeout() and feed the reference of the setTimeout, which will be a number. Then re-invoke it:

var initial;

function invocation() {
    alert('invoked')
    initial = window.setTimeout( 
    function() {
        document.body.style.backgroundColor = 'black'
    }, 5000);
}

invocation();

document.body.onclick = function() {
    alert('stopped')
    clearTimeout( initial )
    // re-invoke invocation()
}

In this example, if you don't click on the body element in 5 seconds the background color will be black.

Reference:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.clearTimeout
• https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Window.setTimeout

Note: setTimeout and clearTimeout are not ECMAScript native methods, but Javascript methods of the global window namespace.

You will have to remember the timeout "Timer", cancel it, then restart it:

g_timer = null;

$(document).ready(function() {
    startTimer();
});

function startTimer() {
    g_timer = window.setTimeout(function() {
        window.location.href = 'file.php';
    }, 115000);
}

function onClick() {
    clearTimeout(g_timer);
    startTimer();
}

var myTimer = setTimeout(..., 115000);
something.click(function () {
    clearTimeout(myTimer);
    myTimer = setTimeout(..., 115000);
}); 

Something along those lines!