How to create a countdown timer in Javascript

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To create a countdown timer in JavaScript we will first need to make it tick with a interval of 1000 milliseconds (1 second). To do this we have to use the window.setTimeout function which will call a JavaScript function after a certain amount of time, like this:

    window.setTimeout("Tick()", 1000);

    function Tick() {

    }

So this will call the function called Tick after 1000 milliseconds, but each time Tick is called we want to set the timer to 1 second to make the timer continue so therefor it should look like this:  more...