Why is setTimeout() not firing?

Hi,
I am not sure why setTimer is not working for me.

I have the folowing fucntion before </head> and included few document.write to make sure it is working.

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function adding(x1){

            document.write("adding"+"<br/>");

            document.write(" x1="+x1);

            var x2=x1;

                document.write(" x2="+x2);
 
            if (x2 <= 10){

                x2=x2+1;

                document.write(" x2="+x2);

                setTimeout("adding(x2)", 300);

            }else

                { document.write("bye");

                } 

        }

Then I have the following after <body>

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var x1=1;

        document.write("x1="+x1);

        adding(x1);

Sep 22 '07 #1

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The reason why the function is not working is because you are using document.write. Once that is called after the pages loads, the entire page is rewritten. Because of this, you will only see the increase once. I would recommend using alert() to make sure a function is working. In addition, instead of using

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setTimeout("adding(x2)", 300);

Use this:

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setTimeout("adding("+x2+")", 300);

I hope I helped.

Sep 22 '07 #2

pbmods

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Heya, aayybb. Welcome to TSDN!

Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles do not follow the Posting Guidelines actually get FEWER responses?).

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

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JavaScript code goes here.
[/CODE]

Sep 22 '07 #3

aayybb

Thank you very much. It works.

The reason why the function is not working is because you are using document.write. Once that is called after the pages loads, the entire page is rewritten. Because of this, you will only see the increase once. I would recommend using alert() to make sure a function is working. In addition, instead of using

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setTimeout("adding(x2)", 300);

Use this:

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setTimeout("adding("+x2+")", 300);

I hope I helped.

Sep 22 '07 #4

aayybb

Sorry. I will post a better message next time.

Heya, aayybb. Welcome to TSDN!

Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles do not follow the Posting Guidelines actually get FEWER responses?).

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

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JavaScript code goes here.

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