Text blinking jQuery

Question

What is an easy way to make text blinking in jQuery and a way to stop it? Must work for IE, FF and Chrome. Thanks

Answer 1

Here you can find a jQuery blink plugin with its quick demo.

Basic blinking (unlimited blinking, blink period ~1 sec):

$('selector').blink();

On a more advanced usage, you can override any of the settings:

$('selector').blink({
    maxBlinks: 60, 
    blinkPeriod: 1000,   // in milliseconds
    onBlink: function(){}, 
    onMaxBlinks: function(){}
});

There you can specify the max number of blinks as well as have access to a couple of callbacks: onBlink and onMaxBlinks that are pretty self explanatory.

Works in IE 7 & 8, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and probably in IE 6 and Opera (although haven't tested on them).

(In full disclosure: I'm am the creator of this previous one. We had the legitimate need to use it at work [I know we all like to say this :-)] for an alarm within a system and I thought of sharing only for use on a legitimate need ;-)).

Here is another list of jQuery blink plugins.