text blinking or flashing

[0211]

Hi everyone:
I have a couple of piece of text that I want to be flashing in the page such as special or save type of things. How do I do it? Is it possible with CSS? or do I have to use something else?(I am using Internet Explorer not Netscape....)
Thanks

 

[dwarfthrower]

Oh boy, when did we roll back to 1997? Sorry, being a little facetious. Blinking or flashing text was so annoying that the major browsers have removed the (non-standard) tags from their reportoire. I believe that there is a CSS kludge that enables it. The other way would be to use JavaScript to periodically blank out a section of text.

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[SlowFlight]

Instead of using blinking text which might not have good cross platform support, you could create an animated gif which does the same thing.
You might want to try try this 2.5KB gif

http://slowflight.net/images/temp/sale.gif

 

[clarkin]

Its annoying and if you are trying to use it to get people to notice something on your page it actually has the opposite effect (people have trained themselves to ignore intrusive ads, which blinking text will look like).

If you're still determined, check out

http://www.siteexperts.com/tips/html/ts12/page1.asp

Posting code? Wrap it with code tags: [ignore]

[/ignore][code]CodeHere

[ignore][/code][/ignore].

 

[0211]

Thanks everyone for the suggestion. Now that I think about it, it is annoying but my boss wants it that way.
SlowFlight, how do I get the code for your Sale thing. I love it!!!! Thanks

 

[MrBelfry]

There is no code for the sale thing. It is an animated image.

MrBelfry

 

[Breadcrust]

animated gifs take longer to download than text. blinking text really sux but if you really need it then i suggest using stylesheets :

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#lining-striking-props

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[ChrisHunt]

Does any existing browser recognise the [tt]text-decoration:blink[/tt] CSS property? It's optional for them to do so, according to the link Breadcrust provided.

The simpler minds of bosses are easily fascinated by flashing things, an animated gif is the easiest way to give him what he wants. Remember to use the alt attribute to spell out the message to imageless visitors:
[tt]
<img src=&quot;/images/sale.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Sale!&quot; title=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; />
[/tt]
If you want to try and persuade your boss of the folly of blinking text, point him at &quot;mistake 10&quot; on

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html

, this article makes interesting reading too:

http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec98/banner_blindness.html

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[harrymossman]

Blinking in the 3 to 49 per second range can cause epileptic seizures, which could get your company sued. That should convince your boss not to do it.

 

[Wullie]

Chris,


Should that not have said:

<img src=&quot;/images/sale.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Annoying Image, think yourself lucky you can't see it!&quot; title=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; />



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[ChrisHunt]

or maybe
[tt]
<img src=&quot;/images/sale.gif&quot; alt=&quot;*** *** *** *** *** Well if we're going to be irritated to death why shouldn't you? *** *** *** *** ***&quot; title=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; />
[/tt]

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[0211]

Thanks everyone for the input. I think I am not going to use blink text after all I heard... I probably go with a moving (slowly) text type of thing. Maybe!! I need to talk to the boss again....