Slideshow Pause button fail

[gardengirl153]

I cannot for the life of me find out why my slideshow fails as soon as I try to add a pause button.
I am sure its something obvious and simple but I have stared at it for hours and tried forums, copying other codes, nothing. At this point the clearTimout function is not working at all, and when i press “play” it actually speeds up the timer somehow.
https://codepen.io/aliciaguitar/pen/xQxNRd

[gardengirl153]

nevermind I figured it out finally. i had to declare my var earlier and add an if else statement in a function

[muratkezli]

Firstly write a new function

function stopSlide(){
clearTimeout(showSlides);
showSlides = null;
}

then call button onclick like onclick=”stopSlide()”

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