Question: I've written this simple Carousel. At the moment I'm using setInterval to run my nextSlide function at certain intervals. I want to defer the timer from running when a user clicks on the navigation links for a certain length of time.

Check it out here
<http://jsbin.com/uzixi3/3/edit>

Any feedback on how the rest is written would be good too.

Answer: 
You could do something like this: <http://jsbin.com/uzixi3/5/edit>

The interval part is here:

```
var int = setInterval($.fn.nextSlide, 3000);
$("#slideNavigation a").click(function() {
  clearInterval(int);
  setTimeout(function() {
    setInterval($.fn.nextSlide, 3000);
  }, 10000);
});

```

I made some other tweaks as well though, for example you can use a `switch` statement to make `.nextSlide()` much more readable and cheaper.

Overall though, there's no reason to make these functions as extension methods on jjquery itself since they don't interact with objects, they can just be methods scoped to the closure like this: <http://jsbin.com/uzixi3/6/edit>

If the methods were actually running on `$('#slideContainer')`, e.g. `$('#slideContainer').nextSlide()` and inside your methods you used `this.animate()` and `this.css()` it might make a bit more sense, just some thoughts that may help you get more flexible as you go.
The above code really helped. Thanks Nick. I made a few minor adjustments so that once you clicked the function: the timer would stop, the function would execute, and then the timer initiates and resumes regular intervals.

make sure you re-assign the `var int` to the new `interval` you create within the `click function`.

```
var int = setInterval(change_slide, 5000);
$("#div").click(function() {
    console.log('clicked');
  clearInterval(int);
  setTimeout(function() {
  int = setInterval(change_slide, 5000);
  });
});

```