background color blink

[pankaj.ghadge]

how to blink the background color .........e.g like in gmail when we do the chatting.................when the message arrived the chat window get blink.......when we click on that chat window that blink stops .............................so how to do this..............................please tell me....................

[global.user]

<script type="text/javascript">function blinkit(){var intrvl=0;for(nTimes=0;nTimes<3;nTimes++){intrvl += 1000;setTimeout("document.bgColor='#0000FF';",intrvl);intrvl += 1000;setTimeout("document.bgColor='#FFFFFF';",intrvl);}}</script>

That should work. It's not css, and will need a bit of changing around for you.

[Ingolme]

You can't do it with CSS, but there's a more efficient way to do this:

function blink(id) {  if(document.getElementById(id).style.backgroundColor != "red") {	document.getElementById(id).style.backgroundColor = "red";  } else {	document.getElementById(id).style.backgroundColor = "white";  }}

To call the blinking, do something like this:(If the object has the id "obj", like this: <div id="obj"></div>)

var B = setInterval(blink("obj"));

To stop it, do this:

clearInterval(B);