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Sep 21.2007

What would be the proper way to delay a for loop from counting? Everything I have tried seems to freeze and crash the browser. I’m looking to put a 10 second delay before each increment of the count variable. Any suggestions?

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@NatdripSep 21.2007 — you don't use a for loop.

your for loop is the setInterval or setTimeout

every so many seconds it will fire off the functions called

so it acts as a delay.

use a global variable to determine when to stop.
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@KorSep 21.2007 — Here's an example on using [B]setInterval[/B] method:
<i>
</i>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript"&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
var n,setT;
function setStart(){
var delayC=10000;
n=1;
setT=setInterval('startCount()',delayC)
}
function startCount(){
var stopC=10;
if(n&lt;=stopC){
document.getElementById('mydiv').firstChild.data=n;
n++
}
else{clearInterval(setT)}
}

&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;div id="mydiv"&gt;0&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;span style="cursor:pointer" onclick="setStart()"&gt;start counting&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;

&lt;span style="cursor:pointer" onclick="setT?clearInterval(setT):null"&gt;stop counting&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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