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Name

Window.clearTimeout( ) — cancel deferred execution

Availability

JavaScript 1.0

Synopsis

                  window.clearTimeout(timeoutId)

Arguments

timeoutId: A value returned by setTimeout( ) that identifies the timeout to be canceled.

Description

clearTimeout( ) cancels the execution of code that has been deferred with the setTimeout( ) method. The timeoutId argument is a value returned by the call to setTimeout( ) and identifies which (of possibly more than one) block of deferred code to cancel.

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