Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:09 pm
Alright, I've revised it, Firefox error console says e is undefined on line 12, which is strange because I assigned it earlier.
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<html><head>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!--
var effect = false; // global variable, right?...so that I can have a stop function??
function doEffect(id)
{
effect = true;
var e = document.getElementById(id);
var c = new Array('|','/','-','\\');
var cnum = 0;
while(effect)
{
setTimeout("e.innerHTML = c[cnum];",1000); // line 12
cnum++;
if(cnum >= 4) cnum = 0;
}
}
function stopEffect(id)
{
effect = false;
var e = document.getElementById(id);
e.innerHTML = '';
}
//-->
</script></head>
<body>
<div id="stuff"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!--
doEffect('stuff');
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>