I know flashing text is banned at many places but still as my client requires it, I need to flash one line of text using HTML, JavaScript which ever is feasible. I would like the text to appear and disappear within seconds and continue this cycle.
I know text-decoration:blink in CSS can do this but it only works in FireFox, Opera. And I need this to work in all browsers Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE. I have searched and tried a lot of Javascript codes but none seem to be working.
So any one who knows how to do this, please post a working version of code which does flash the text in all browsers.
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Answer
You can do something like this:
<div id="Foo">Blink</div>With the script:
$(document).ready(function() { var f = document.getElementById('Foo'); setInterval(function() { f.style.display = (f.style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none'); }, 1000);});Sample: http://jsfiddle.net/7XRcJ/
If you’re not using jQuery, you can try something like this:
window.addEventListener("load", function() { var f = document.getElementById('Foo'); setInterval(function() { f.style.display = (f.style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none'); }, 1000);}, false);Various browsers have different ways of binding event handlers, so I would strongly suggest using some sort of cross-browser library for this sort of thing if possible.
You can also try using the onload event in the body tag. Here’s a full example that I’ve tested in FF and IE7:
function blink() { var f = document.getElementById('Foo'); setInterval(function() { f.style.display = (f.style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none'); }, 1000);}<html><body onload="blink();"><div id="Foo">Blink</div></body></html>