flashing text

[nathansnippe]

Is there any way you can have text flashing? If so, can you please tell me the html for it?

thank you very much,

nathan

[NormanRouxel]

The much derided <blink>Annoying text here</blink> would do it.

If this is to be in your Product Description then you need to surround it with !!< and >!!

E.g. !!<<blink>Annoying text here</blink>>!!

or !!<<blink>>!!Annoying text here!!<</blink>>!!

The second is preferable as it ensures the text is indexed by Actinic.

[jont]

E.g. !!<<blink>Annoying text here</blink>>!!

The actual code would be !!<<blink>Will all users please leave the site now and go buy elsewhere from a site not stuck in 1995</blink>>!!

You would probably almost always be better using Flash or at least an animated GIF if you need to grab attention

[NormanRouxel]

I agree with Jont. There's an excellent page "HTML Hell" http://catb.org/~esr/html-hell.html, regarding all the things you can do wrong and <blink> is top of the list. Luckily Microsoft decided not to support it in IE. Only Netscape still do I think. There a many JavaScript solutions if you really have to use this. Googling for "blinking text" is the way to go.

If you really want to use these effects, all you need to know is that you should surround HTML with !!< and >!!. For details on how to use HTML, search on Google or look in any online HTML primer.

[pinbrook]

Yes flashing text is a blinking annoyance

[NormanRouxel]

This ( http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html ) article on design annoyances is particularly good as it's illustrated with cartoons.

[jont]

The horizontal scrolling cartoon makes the point perfectly