jQWidgets jqxGrid updatedelay Property

Last Updated : 29 Mar, 2023

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxGrid is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that shows data in tabular form. Moreover, it renders full support for connecting with data, as well as paging, grouping, sorting, filtering, and editing.

The updatedelay property is used to set or get the reading update delay. Moreover, it can be useful in the deferred scrolling mode of the scrollbar in the displayed jqxGrid. It is of type number and its by default value is 0.

Syntax:

Set the updatedelay property.

$('#Selector').jqxGrid({ updatedelay: 200});

Return the updatedelay property.

var updatedelay = $('#Selector').jqxGrid('updatedelay');

Linked Files: Download https://www.jqwidgets.com/download/ from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jqxGrid updatedelay property in jQWidgets.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet"
          href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" 
          type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"> 
      </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxGrid updatedelay 
            property 
        </h3> 
        <br /> 
  
        <div id="jqxg"></div> 
  
        <div> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                style="margin-top: 25px" value="Click here" /> 
        </div> 
  
        <div id="log"></div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var d = new Array(); 
            var subjectNames = 
                ["C++", "Scala", "Java", "C", "R", "JavaScript"]; 
  
            var pageNumber = 
                ["7", "8", "12", "11", "10", "19"]; 
  
            for (var j = 0; j < 50; j++) { 
                var r = {}; 
                r["subjectnames"] = 
                    subjectNames[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * subjectNames.length)) 
                    ]; 
  
                r["pagenumber"] = 
                    pageNumber[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * pageNumber.length)) 
                    ]; 
                d[j] = r; 
  
            } 
            var src = { 
                localdata: d, 
                datatype: "array", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                sortable: true, 
                theme: 'energyblue', 
                scrollmode: 'deferred', 
                updatedelay: 200, 
                height: "260px", 
                width: "250px", 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "180px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                var ud = $('#jqxg').jqxGrid('updatedelay'); 
                $('#log').text("Delay: " + ud); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>