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Pierre Bouillon
Pierre Bouillon

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Dynamic text rewriting

Hi !

I saw some websites with a cool feature: rewriting all or part of a text with js ( a part example) but can I do this in js without an infinity loop that'll completely slow down browser performances?

I would love to implement my own version but have no clue on how.
Thanks for your help !

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Ali Spittel • Edited

I would use setInterval() to run your function every x seconds! Here's a reference on the typewriter effect w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_typew....

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Pierre Bouillon

Exactly what I needed! I feel ashamed of not having found that ^ "
Thank you very much, I finally added it to my site!

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