Tiny jQuery Plugin For User Activity / Idle Detection - idleCat

idleCat is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps detect your user is active or inactive(idle) on the web page and then execute corresponding callback functions.

How to use it:

1. Link to the jQuery idleCat plugin's script at the bottom of your web project. Make sure you have the latest version of jQuery also loaded.

<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.idleCat.min.js"></script>

2. Create a new instance of idleCat and pass the options to the idleCat function as shown below.

var idleTimer = $('#status').idleCat({

    // Number of seconds to wait between two scans of user activity.
    interval: 2,

    // How many seconds to hold the activity from the moment of knowing there was not any activity.
    release: 2,

    // The default state of the idleness (use 'active' or 'idle').
    state: 'idle',

    // Callback fired after the discovery of user activity on the page.
    activeCallback: function() {
        $(this).addClass('active');
    },

    // Callback fired after the discovery of used idleness on the page.
    // (+ number of seconds defined in the 'release' property)
    idleCallback: function(element) {
        $(this).removeClass('active');
    },

});

Change log:

2016-05-21

• Minor improvements in code

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by smuuf. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.