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How can I make my text blink?

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maanton

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How can I make my text blink?
I tried blink from css styles (text-decoration: blink; ), but it worked only on FF and not in IE :(
 
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Why? You didn't like the answer in thread248-1039985?

Greg
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No I did not because my boss loves IE and tests my work inthere ...
 
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Your best bet is JavaScript. Google 'javascript blink' and you can find multiple sources. If you can't use JavaScript, you're out of luck. Blink is a Netscape / FF tag.

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
 
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i saved this in my archives cause i hate the topic so much:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[/URL]

<html>
<head>
<title>new document</title>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

function changeDisplay() {
    var s = document.getElementById('blinky');
	s.style.display = s.style.display == '' ? 'none' : '';
	setTimeout('changeDisplay()', 500);
}

-->
</script>

<style type="text/css">

#blinky {
    display: '';
}

</style>

</head>

<body onload="setTimeout('changeDisplay()', 500);">

<span id="blinky">Blinking Text</span>

</body>

</html>

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The thing that's almost as unpopular as those stupid popups is blinking text. Changing color gradually isn't bad, but blinking is obnoxious (and I'm not the only one with that opinion, I've found).

Here's a site with text that changes colors that you could adapt to blink to annoy people if you want:


Lee
 
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The only place I can see using blinking text would be on a corporate intranet, where it was something you needed the sheep, er, I mean user-base, NOT to miss. Perhaps as part of the proxy blocked website page.

Another place where annoying people would be justified is as the returned image for people who try to image link to your site.

Other than that, it's pretty much a blanket no-no.
 
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A corporate intranet might need blinking text to remind people of the "document retention policy" and also not to talk to the feds.
 
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...and also not to talk to the feds."

We've utilized regular beatings for that, with quite a high success rate I might add.
 
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taylorantone said:
The only place I can see using blinking text would be on a corporate intranet, where it was something you needed the sheep, er, I mean user-base, NOT to miss. Perhaps as part of the proxy blocked website page.
Click to expand...

Definitely not, because they would then start ringing up to ask why the text was flashing [banghead]



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How can I make my text blink?
Click to expand...

How can I make my eyes bleed?

But seriously ([bigsmile])... Javascript is probably your best bet. Consider writing an HTC that does the job of supporting the blink CSS property, or use Cory's post above.

Hope this helps,
Dan


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thanks lee for that great website (
somebody should tell them the blinking stars are annoying.

Christiaan Baes
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I suppose you could do the blinking very subtley, that wouldn't be so bad. I was thinking of the old "on, off" blinking that the <blink> tag used to induce.

But switching between 2 varied tones of the same colour might look quite nice.... not sure I would use it though.

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Oh, well. Then tell here they are very nice and make the site even more professional and grand.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

If you want to get an answer read this FAQ faq796-2540
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What I suggested that website for was the letters changing colors in the top, done with Javascript, not the blinking stars. :)# The color changes are more subtle, but the script could easily be changed to be as annoying as possible. :)#

Lee
 
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