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Iw2155

Subject: I think it was done with java, but... · Posted: 2003-04-08, 07:28am

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I saw this site once that had a text area-like box that typed text into the box on it's own, one letter at a time. It would just type away, and it started as soon as the page loaded. Does anyone know what I am talking about? If so, do you know how to do it?

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misterhaan

Subject: javascript can do it · Posted: 2003-04-08, 07:59am

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if i understand you correctly, you can use javascript to do it. the only thing i don't know is how to make it go slow, but here's some code:

Code:

<form name="theform">
<input name="typing" />
</form>

that will give you a text box named typing inside a form named theform.
you would then want to make a javascript function and put it in the head:

Code:

function typethetext() {
textstring = "this is the text it will type";
var i;
for (i = 0; i < textstring.length; i++) {
document.theform.typing.value = textstring.substring(0, i + 1);
//code to make it delay before adding the next character
}
}

then just call the function from somewhere in the body:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
typethetext();
//--></script>

hope that helps! i have a javascript that changes the values of form fields on this page of my site.

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