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How to set a countdown in realtime in HTML/JavaScript


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Hello, I want to do a countdown and put it in my website. I did a countdown but I have a problem, when I launch it, the seconds are freezing they are not anymore running... So the countdown is not in realtime anymore... I have to refresh in order to see the countdown running.
Here is what I did:

<div id="after">
    <span id="dhour"></span>:<span id="dmin"></span>:<span id="dsec"></span>
</div>
<div id="count2">Texte à afficher</div>
   
<div class="numbers" id="dday" hidden="true"></div>
<script>
var ladate = new Date("<?php
echo gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");?>");
var year=ladate.getFullYear();
var month=ladate.getMonth()+1;
var day=ladate.getDate();
var hour=14;
var minute=20;
var tz=0;
 
var montharray=new Array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec");
 
function countdown(yr,m,d,hr,min){
theyear=yr;themonth=m;theday=d;thehour=hr;theminute=min;
var today= new Date("<?php
echo gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");?>");
var todayy=today.getYear();
if (todayy < 1000) {todayy+=1900; }
 
var todaym=today.getMonth();
var todayd=today.getDate();
var todayh=today.getHours();
var todaymin=today.getMinutes();
var todaysec=today.getSeconds();
var todaystring1=montharray[todaym]+" "+todayd+", "+todayy+" "+todayh+":"+todaymin+":"+todaysec;
var todaystring=Date.parse(todaystring1)+(tz*1000*60*60);
var futurestring1=(montharray[m-1]+" "+d+", "+yr+" "+hr+":"+min);
var futurestring=Date.parse(futurestring1)-(today.getTimezoneOffset()*(1000*60));
var dd=futurestring-todaystring;
var dday=Math.floor(dd/(60*60*1000*24)*1);
var dhour=Math.floor((dd%(60*60*1000*24))/(60*60*1000)*1);
var dmin=Math.floor(((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000))/(60*1000)*1);
var dsec=Math.floor((((dd%(60*60*1000*24))%(60*60*1000))%(60*1000))/1000*1);
 
if(dday<=0&&dhour<=0&&dmin<=0&&dsec<=0){
document.getElementById('count2').style.display="inline";
document.getElementById('after').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('dday').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('dhour').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('dmin').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('dsec').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('days').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('hours').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('minutes').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('seconds').style.display="none";
return;}else {
document.getElementById('count2').style.display="none";
document.getElementById('dday').innerHTML=dday;
document.getElementById('dhour').innerHTML=dhour;
document.getElementById('dmin').innerHTML=dmin;
document.getElementById('dsec').innerHTML=dsec;
window.location.reload();
setTimeout("countdown(theyear,themonth,theday,thehour,theminute)",1000);}}
 
countdown(year,month,day,hour,minute);
</script>

Thank you.

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If you properly indent your code, you'll find that your code keeps reloading the window before it gets to the part of the code that counts down.

 

The offending line is window.location.reload();

function countdown(yr,m,d,hr,min){
  theyear=yr;themonth=m;theday=d;thehour=hr;theminute=min;

  // ...
   
  var todaym=today.getMonth();
  // ...
   
  if(dday<=0&&dhour<=0&&dmin<=0&&dsec<=0){
    // ...
    return;
  } else {
    // ...
    window.location.reload();
    setTimeout("countdown(theyear,themonth,theday,thehour,theminute)",1000);
  }
}

Aside from that, this code looks a little more complicated than it needs to be.

Since you have global variables, don't bother passing parameters to the countdown function. Then you can simplify it like this:

function countdown() {
 // ...
 // ...
  setTimeout(countdown, 1000);
}

Using a string in setTimeout and setInterval is inefficient.

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