Question about Blinking a column in a table...

[Mel]

I need to blink a cell within my table using a preset color (say
"skyblue) for a fraction of a seconds (that I can specify through
function call).

I guess i should use Timeout of a sort.

can someone help me please ?

My function should look something like:
Blink (100ms, 'skyblue');

or something like that

Thanks in advance

 

[ASM]

Mel a écrit :

I need to blink a cell within my table using a preset color (say
"skyblue) for a fraction of a seconds (that I can specify through
function call).

function Blink(what, color, duration) {
// duration = time spent to blink (in ms)
what = (typeof what == 'string')?
document.getElementById(what) : what;
truc = setInterval( function() {
what.style.backgroundColor = (what.style.backgroundColor=='')?
color : '';
}, 50);
setTimeout('clearInterval(truc)', duration);
return false;
}

<a href="#" onclick="return Blink('aTd', 'skyblue', 700);">blink</a>
<table><tr><td id="aTd"> here blinker </td></tr></table>