WindowTimers

WindowTimers is a mixin used to provide utility methods which set and clear timers. No objects of this type exist; instead, its methods are available on Window for the standard browsing scope, or on WorkerGlobalScope for workers.

Properties

This interface neither inherits nor provides any properties.

Methods

This interface does not inherit any methods. It offers the following methods.

WindowTimers.clearInterval()

Cancels the repeated execution set using WindowTimers.setInterval().

WindowTimers.clearTimeout()

Cancels the delayed execution set using WindowTimers.setTimeout().

WindowTimers.setInterval()

Schedules a function to execute every time a given number of milliseconds elapses.

WindowTimers.setTimeout()

Schedules a function to execute in a given amount of time.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of 'WindowTimers' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change since the latest snapshot, HTML5.1.
HTML5.1 The definition of 'WindowTimers' in that specification.	Recommendation	Snapshot of WHATWG HTML Living Standard. No change.
HTML5 The definition of 'WindowTimers' in that specification.	Recommendation	Snapshot of WHATWG HTML Living Standard. Creation of WindowBase64 (properties where on the target before it).

Browser compatibility

See also

• Window, WorkerGlobalScope, DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope, SharedWorkerGlobalScope, and ServiceWorkerGlobalScope