should have posted this before - wait.html
----------------------------------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> <html> <head> <title>Untitled</title> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function wait(time){ $("#test").css("display","block"); time = time * 1000; var sleeping = true; var now = new Date(); var startingMSeconds = now.getTime(); while(sleeping){ alarm = new Date(); alarmMSeconds = alarm.getTime(); if(alarmMSeconds - startingMSeconds > time){ sleeping = false; } } } //--> </script> <style type="text/css"> <!-- #test{ display:none } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="test"> WOW </div> <button type="button" onclick="wait(4);">wait</button> </body> </html> ------------------------------------------------ END EXAMPLE ----------------- PragueExpat wrote: > > Why does the following function wait until after the while loop is > finished to update the #timer css? It happens in IE and Firefox - I'm > (still) using jQ 1.1.2. > > function wait(time){ > $("#timer").css("display","block"); > time = time * 1000; > var sleeping = true; > var now = new Date(); > var startingMSeconds = now.getTime(); > while(sleeping){ > alarm = new Date(); > alarmMSeconds = alarm.getTime(); > if(alarmMSeconds - startingMSeconds > time){ sleeping = false; } > } > } > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/I-thought-I-understood-threads...-tf4096371s15494.html#a11647892 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
