>It displays a link for 2 seconds, then it
>displays another link for 2 seconds, and so on.
Try this html file. Let me know if you have any questions.
I didn't actually a changing link in the site you mentioned. Maybe the
links don't change on a Mac. So, I am guessing here!
Robert
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Changing Links</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeLink(label)
{
links = [ "<a href='http://www.yahoo.com'>Yahoo</a>",
"<a href='http://www.google.com'>Google</a>",
"<a href='http://www.ebay.com'>Ebay</a>" ];
var node;
// Set a starting index for the links array
if ( typeof changeLink.index == "undefined" )
{ changeLink.index = 0; }
if (document.getElementById)
{
node = document.getElementById(label);
if (node)
{
newLink(node);
}
else
{
alert("You need to create a span tag with " +
"the id of " + label + ".");
return;
}
}
else
{
if (document.all)
{
node = document.all[label];
newLink(node);
}
else
{
alert("Constructs document.getElementByID " +
"and document.all failed. " +
"You need to use a newer browser.");
return;
}
}
function newLink(node)
{
node.innerHTML = links[changeLink.index++];
changeLink.index %= links.length;
setTimeout("changeLink('newlink')",3000);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Change a link.</p>
<span id="newlink"><a
href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a></span>
<br>
<p>When the "Change links" button is
pressed, the link will change every three seconds.
<form>
<input type="button"
name="activate"
value="Change links"
onclick="changeLink('newlink')">
</form>
</p>
</body>
</html>
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