How can I refresh a page with JQuery at set intervals that would work like meta refresh but without reloading the page?
...Or reloading an html form on the page to refresh the data it displays?
Either of those would work but I cannot find anything that actually works.
Thanks!
You can use ajax to update certain fragments of the page using the $.ajax or $.getJSON functions, these functions will call your server side code and retrieve a json block, the json data can then be populated
$.ajax({ url: "mydomain.com/url", type: "POST", dataType: "xml/html/script/json", data: $.param( $("Element or Expression") ), complete: function(data) { var tag = $('#idonpage'); tag.text(data.something.etc); }, success: function() { //called when successful }, error: function() { //called when there is an error }, }); or you can use the $.load function using the form $.load('someurl #id'), jQuery will parse the html from someurl looking for the id tag and this data can be used to populate somewhere on your page.
to call a function at given intervals use the javascript setInterval function for example calling a function every 2 seconds :-
setInterval(function() { do something... },2000);
use the document ready function before setting all if this up.
$(document).ready(function() { }); Hope this points you in the right direction.
To refersh whole page you need:
widnow.location.href = "stackoverlow.com"; If you need referesh some part of page seems you need take a look into $.ajax
If you want referesh some part of page each 2 seconds use setInterval and $.ajax:
setInterval(function() { $.ajax(..); }, 2000); 
