[eluser]Jay Turley[/eluser]
My instinct is that since the plugin does not provide this sort of functionality, then you need to write it yourself.
The plugin is basically calling setTimeout() over and over with a period of one second.
A simple (cheesy) solution: create a variable, use jquery to set it when an anchor is clicked, and then modify the plugin to check that variable.
Given the html tidbit:
Code:
<a href="#" id="stopCountdown">Stop Countdown</a>
We create a global variable:
Code:
var countdown_okay = true;
The click handler for the anchor is like so:
Code:
$('#stopCountdown').click( function() {
countdown_okay = false;
});
And then we modify the plugin to look like the following:
Code:
/**
* recursive countdown
*/
var countdown = window.setTimeout(
function() {
jQuery(obj).html(String(options.seconds));
if (countdown_okay) {
--options.seconds; // only decrement countdown if okay to do so
}
jQuery(obj).countdown(options);
}
, 1000
);
The reason I did it as above is so that you can stop and start the countdown by modifying the click handler for the anchor:
Code:
$('#stopCountdown').click( function() {
countdown_okay = !countdown_okay;
});
I did not test any of this code. YMMV. Best of luck, etc.
Oh, and
it would be MUCH better to drop this functionality into the plugin, but I was lazy. I would redo the plugin with a private variablt to handle whether or not the countdown was allowed to continue. But I am lazy. Did I say that already?
