How to Build a Countdown Timer in Pure JavaScript
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You don’t necessarily need jQuery to add a countdown timer to your site. It takes just a few lines of JavaScript to create a customizable timer that counts down to a pre-defined date and time. You can embed the timer to several kinds of pages such as Coming Soon and Maintenance pages, eCommerce stores, daily deals websites, and event registration pages.In this tutorial, we will create the countdown timer step by step so that you can understand everything. You can find the entire JavaScript code at the end of the article.1. Create the HTMLLet’s start with the HTML. The countdown timer will display four figures: days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Create a <span> element for each so that later you can target them with JavaScript.Also add a <script> tag with the path to the JavaScript file right before the closing <body>tag.<div class="container"> <p id="timer"> <span id="timer-days"></span> <span id="timer-hours"></span> <span id="timer-mins"></span> …

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