卸载通过load（）加载的JS以避免重复？

Question

I'm building a dynamic website that loads all pages inside a "body" div via jquery's load(). The problem is I have a script looped with setInterval inside the loaded PHP page, the reason being I want the script loaded only when that page is displayed. Now I discovered that the scripts keep running even after "leaving" the page (loading something else inside the div without refresh) and if I keep leaving / returning the loops stack up flooding my server with GET requests (from the javascript).

What's a good way to unload all JS once you leave the page? I could do a simple dummy var to not load scripts twice, but I would like to stop the loop after leaving the page because it's causing useless traffic and spouting console errors as elements it's supposed to fill are no longer there.

Sorry if this has already been asked, but it's pretty hard to come up with keywords for this.

Answer 1

1) why don't you try with clearInterval? 2) if you have a general (main) function a( ) { ... } doing something you can just override it with function a() { }; doing nothing 3) if you null the references to something it will be garbage collected

no code provided, so no more I can do to help you