HI, I tried to implement some code that do the same as Ajax.periodicalUpdater in Prototype, when I run it in the browser, it works, but the memory used by the browser getting bigger and bigger, so the browser will not respond anymore,
Here is my code <script type="text/javascript" src="../jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script> function callMeOften() { $.ajax({ method: 'get', url : 'data/1.txt', dataType : 'text', success: function (text) { $('clockArea').html (text); } }); var holdTheInterval = setInterval(callMeOften, 1000); } </script> </head> <body> <input type="button" value="Test" onclick="callMeOften();"/><br/> <br/ > <br/> <p><div id="clockArea"></div></p> </body> </html> any help please.