In this post, we are going to see how to create a start/stop timer using jQuery.
It becomes useful when you want to allow users to show some time duration before performing some task or show a timer for some quiz-like applications and many more cases.
Steps by Step Guide to Create start/stop timer using Jquery:
If you are new to Jquery or want to learn some basics before starting this tutorial, I must recommend to please checkout learn-javascript-from-scratch and jquery-step-by-step-tutorial-for-beginners
So, here I am going to show how this can be done by using Jquery. we will use a third-party library to achieve this feature with jquery
So let’s start.
Step-1: Add jquery
First of all, you have to add the jquery library to your page:
<head>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
</head>Step 2: Create an HTML page
Create a Blank HTML file and put the following code:
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="card" style="width: 40rem;margin-top: 20vh;margin-left: 40vh;">
<div class="card-body">
<h5 id="timer1" class="card-title"></h5>
<p class="card-text text-note" style="display: none;">Refresh the page to start timer again.</p>
<button type="button" id="pause" class="btn btn-primary">Pause</button>
<button type="button" id="resume" class="btn btn-secondary">Resume</button>
<button type="button" id="remove" class="btn btn-danger">Remove</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>Step 3: Add Timer Plugin
Add third-party jQuery-timer-plugin after jquery script.
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/timer.jquery/0.7.0/timer.jquery.js"></script>Step 4: JavaScript code
After ending the HTML tag add some Javascript code including with script tag as follow:
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
//start a timer
$("#timer1").timer();
//pause the timer
$('#pause').on('click', function () {
$('#timer1').timer('pause');
})
//resume the timer
$('#resume').on('click', function () {
$('#timer1').timer('resume');
})
//remove the timer
$('#remove').on('click', function () {
$('#timer1').timer('remove').hide();
$('#pause,#resume,#remove').hide();
$('.text-note').show();
})
});
</script>Now you are done.
If you find any issues check out the complete source code given below:
Complete source code:
Index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>Jquery Timer Demo</title>
<!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO"
crossorigin="anonymous">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="card" style="width: 40rem;margin-top: 20vh;margin-left: 40vh;">
<div class="card-body">
<h5 id="timer1" class="card-title"></h5>
<p class="card-text text-note" style="display: none;">Refresh the page to start timer again.</p>
<button type="button" id="pause" class="btn btn-primary">Pause</button>
<button type="button" id="resume" class="btn btn-secondary">Resume</button>
<button type="button" id="remove" class="btn btn-danger">Remove</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/timer.jquery/0.7.0/timer.jquery.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-ChfqqxuZUCnJSK3+MXmPNIyE6ZbWh2IMqE241rYiqJxyMiZ6OW/JmZQ5stwEULTy"
crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
//start a timer
$("#timer1").timer();
//pause the timer
$('#pause').on('click', function () {
$('#timer1').timer('pause');
})
//resume the timer
$('#resume').on('click', function () {
$('#timer1').timer('resume');
})
//remove the timer
$('#remove').on('click', function () {
$('#timer1').timer('remove').hide();
$('#pause,#resume,#remove').hide();
$('.text-note').show();
})
});
</script>
</body>
</html>Conclusion:
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