make a div disappear after a few seconds

[Bob Bedford]

Hi all,

I've created a DIV with important notes for my site. I've a Close button on
it, but would like to have a timer that automatically close the div is it
hasn't been closed after a few seconds (let's say 5 seconds). Thanks for
your help.

How to do so ?

[Erwin Moller]

Bob Bedford wrote:

Hi all,

I've created a DIV with important notes for my site. I've a Close button
on it, but would like to have a timer that automatically close the div is
it hasn't been closed after a few seconds (let's say 5 seconds). Thanks
for your help.

How to do so ?

Hi

Use setTimeout();

eg:
<div id="helpdiv" style="display:block">
helpstuff here
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
// close the div in 5 secs
window.setTimeout("closeHelpDiv();", 5000);

function closeHelpDiv(){
document.getElementById("helpdiv").style.display=" none";
}
</script>

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Phrogz]

Erwin Moller wrote:

// close the div in 5 secs
window.setTimeout("closeHelpDiv();", 5000);

function closeHelpDiv(){
document.getElementById("helpdiv").style.display=" none";
}

Slightly cleaner, use a function reference rather than a string to
eval():

function closeHelpDiv(){
document.getElementById("helpdiv").style.display=" none";
}

// close the div in 5 secs
window.setTimeout( closeHelpDiv, 5000 );

[nutso fasst]

"Phrogz" <ga***@refinery.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@h48g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...

// close the div in 5 secs
window.setTimeout( closeHelpDiv, 5000 );

From Javascript 1.3 spec:

"The expression must be quoted; otherwise, setTimeout calls it immediately."

nf

[Phrogz]

nutso fasst wrote:

"Phrogz" <ga***@refinery.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@h48g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...

// close the div in 5 secs
window.setTimeout( closeHelpDiv, 5000 );

From Javascript 1.3 spec:

"The expression must be quoted; otherwise, setTimeout calls it immediately."

Notice that I did not put parentheses on the end of that function name.
Thus, "calling it immediately" resolves the variable reference to the
function; setTimeout invokes that function object when required.

[nutso fasst]

"Phrogz" <ga***@refinery.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...

Notice that I did not put parentheses on the end of that function name.
Thus, "calling it immediately" resolves the variable reference to the
function; setTimeout invokes that function object when required.

Ah, so. Thanks for edification.