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Periodically Updating the Text Displayed by an HTML Element
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/*
Mastering JavaScript, Premium Edition
by James Jaworski
ISBN:078212819X
Publisher Sybex CopyRight 2001
*/
<html>
<head>
<title>Replacing Text</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
var msgIX = 0
var msgs = new Array(
"Notice anything different?",
"The text you are looking at has changed.",
"This is a handy way of sending messages to your users."
)
function scrollMessages(milliseconds) {
window.setInterval("displayMessage()", milliseconds)
}
function displayMessage() {
if(document.getElementById != null) {
var heading = document.getElementById("scrollme")
heading.firstChild.nodeValue = msgs[msgIX]
}else{
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
var heading = document.all.item("scrollme")
heading.innerText = msgs[msgIX]
}
}
++msgIX
msgIX %= msgs.length
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="scrollMessages(2000)">
<h1 align="center" id="scrollme">Watch this text very carefully!</h1>
</body>
</html>
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