html id clear,javascript - How to clearInterval with unknown ID? - Stack Overflow

I tried the approach suggested by #Shadow Wizard and it worked in clearing the interval. However, this approach had side effects afterwards. In my particular case, I was unable use jquery.fadeTo() after clearing all of the intervals.

The approach that I settled on is a cleaner solution, which is to redefine the setInterval method and save the interval ids in the re-defined methods. As shown here, I put the the ids into an array and then clear all of them. With a little more refinement of the structure to store the arrays, you could label them and clear them selectively.

var intervalTracking = new Array();

var intervalCount=0;

window.oldSetInterval = window.setInterval;

window.setInterval = ( function(func, interval) {

var interval = oldSetInterval(func, interval);

intervalTracking[++intervalCount]=interval;

return interval;

});

function clearAllIntervals() {

for (var i = 0 ; i <= intervalCount ; i++) {

window.clearInterval( intervalTracking[i] );

}

}

This seems to work!