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Repeat an Action at Regular Intervals

Explore how to repeatedly modify element content using JavaScript's setInterval and control execution with clearInterval and setTimeout. Understand how to create countdowns and delayed actions to enhance web animations and interactivity.

In this lesson, you will learn how to modify an element’s content repeatedly. An associated HTML code and the corresponding JavaScript code are given below.

It works as expected. Though the countdown does not stop we will fix this later.

Kick off a repeated action

How did the previous example work? The JavaScript code defines a function called decreaseCounter() that ...