Show text letter by letter

Question

What is the most elegant way of showing an html text letter by letter (like videogame captions) using CSS and JavaScript?

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Answer 1

I made a tiny jquery plugin for that. First you need to make sure that the text will be visible if javascript is disabled, and if not, redisplay the text letter by letter.

$.fn.retype = function(delay) {
    var el = this,
        t = el.text(),
        c = t.split(''),
        l = c.length,
        i = 0;
    delay = delay || 100;
    el.empty();
    var interval = setInterval(function(){
        if(i < l) el.text(el.text() + c[i++]); 
        else clearInterval(interval);
    }, delay);
};

Usage will be just as easy as this:

$('h1').retype();