Need Help With Getting A Html Tag To Work In Internet Explorer

[livinthailandos]

I got this working with firefox but it won't work with internet explorer, i'm still quite a newbie with html learning. any ideas on how to get this javascript working on internet explorer

<tr>

<td width="21%"><strong><big><script type="text/javascript">

var txt="Lunch Specials";

document.write("<p> " + txt.blink() + " </p>");

</script></big></strong></td>

</tr>

[bino]

Blinking text is kinda obnoxious - but if you gotta have it, here is a cross-browser solution:

Put this code in the head of your page:

   <script>
function doBlink() {
  // Blink, Blink, Blink...
  var blink = document.all.tags("BLINK")
  for (var i=0; i < blink.length; i++)
	blink[i].style.visibility = blink[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : "" 
}

function startBlink() {
  // Make sure it is IE
  if (document.all)
	setInterval("doBlink()",1000)
}
window.onload = startBlink;
</SCRIPT>

Put this code in the body where you want the blinking text to appear.

   <BLINK SPEED=1000>
  Lunch Specials
</BLINK>

Blink speed - 1000 is one second. you can adjust this to your desire - 2000 would be 2 seconds, 500 would be a half second. Be sure to change both instances in the script and the body tag.

Choke dee.

Edited June 8, 2009 by bino

[Emeritus]

I consult w3schools when I try to do something in html and found this about blinking text:

www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_blink.asp

However, I understand that Microsoft Internet Explorer has been designed not to comply with the international standard and therefore a workaround is needed for certain things, and I guess this is what the code posted by bino is about.