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Does "setinterval" make the event occur periodically?

22nd Feb 2016, 2:34 PM
Souhayel Abassi
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I think it does. in other languages a while loop is used for this behavior. but it looks like in JavaScript the behavior continues until it's cleared.
5th Mar 2016, 9:01 AM
Jesus Chavez
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yes it does. whatever value you pass as the second argument will be your period (in milliseconds)
19th Jun 2016, 1:31 AM
Axle
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Take a look at this example I did so you can have a better understanding of setInterval: https://code.sololearn.com/WtWo50WAHrTt/#js
10th Aug 2017, 10:46 PM
Juan F R G
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