how can i make an icon to be blinking

[ade9ja]

Good day house, don't know if you will get this but what i want to apply on my forum is the ability of a board with maybe current posting to be blinking, don't know maybe it's the icon by the side of the board, please help.

[mashby]

Do you mean like the new image blinking? You could go really old school (and deprecated) and surround the new image with a <blink> tag or you could do the more reasonable thing and make an animated GIF for the new.gif image. Is that what you're going for?

[Kill Em All]

Do you mean like the new image blinking? You could go really old school (and deprecated) and surround the new image with a <blink> tag

Wow, I completely forgot about that tag. You really are going old school. haha.

I would suggest creating the .gif image though.

[mashby]

<blink> in jQuery world:

Code Select Expand

    <script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$.fn.repeat = function(speed, time){
var $this = $(this);
$this.fadeIn(speed);
setInterval(function(){
$this.fadeOut(speed, function(){$this.fadeIn(speed);});
}, time*1000);
};
$(".info").repeat ("slow", 1.5); //Xms, Ys
});
</script>

[ade9ja]

Do you mean like the new image blinking? You could go really old school (and deprecated) and surround the new image with a <blink> tag or you could do the more reasonable thing and make an animated GIF for the new.gif image. Is that what you're going for?

not really an image but the icon of a board.

[mashby]

OK, but the icon of the board would be an image, correct? I'm not entirely sure what you're after any more.

[ade9ja]

OK, but the icon of the board would be an image, correct? I'm not entirely sure what you're after any more.

not necessary, it can be the default smf icon but what i just want is for it to blink thereby creating an attraction to the particular board.

[mashby]

Can you attach (using the Additional Options thing) the image you would like to blink?

[ade9ja]

Can you attach (using the Additional Options thing) the image you would like to blink?

don't know may be you are really getting what i mean, if you go to this forum now www.naijavoice.com and watch out for some boards like introduction, jobs/vacancy, computer and internet, you will see at the board icon that it's faded, so how can such icn be blinking, that is what i mean, is it possible?

[mashby]

Upload the attached to overwrite http://naijavoice.com/Themes/default/images/on.gif
Let me know if that's what you are after.

[ade9ja]

Upload the attached to overwrite http://naijavoice.com/Themes/default/images/on.gif
Let me know if that's what you are after.

You are absolutely right, tat is what i am looking for, should i now download and install it or what?

[Kill Em All]

Yes you can download it and upload it, thus replacing your current one, I would assume mashby has no problem with you using it since he attached it.

[mashby]

No problem. By attaching it, I assumed he would download it, upload it and use it.

[ade9ja]

Upload the attached to overwrite http://naijavoice.com/Themes/default/images/on.gif
Let me know if that's what you are after.

i just uploaded the gif file now and refresh my page but still no blinking just as static as it was before?

[mashby]

OK, I uploaded an animated GIF and I see the animation on my post, but don't see it on your web server. Are you sure you downloaded my attachment and overwrote what was on your web server?

I have to doubt that is true.

[ade9ja]

OK, I uploaded an animated GIF and I see the animation on my post, but don't see it on your web server. Are you sure you downloaded my attachment and overwrote what was on your web server?

I have to doubt that is true.

thanks very much it's now working and i can see the effect but before i mark the solve button, i want to as if it's possible for me to change the color to green, i mean the icon colour to green?

[ade9ja]

OK, I uploaded an animated GIF and I see the animation on my post, but don't see it on your web server. Are you sure you downloaded my attachment and overwrote what was on your web server?

I have to doubt that is true.

And one more, why is it that some board icon look faded while others look alive and bold, i want all icons to look alive and bold.

[Kill Em All]

Alive and bold is to show that there are new topics or posts in the board and faded shows that there are no new topics or posts in that board.

If you want them all to be alive and bold, then I would suggest replacing the off.gif image with the on.gif image mashby uploaded and just rename it to off.gif.

I would upload the image but I don't have a image editor on my laptop.

[ade9ja]

Alive and bold is to show that there are new topics or posts in the board and faded shows that there are no new topics or posts in that board.

If you want them all to be alive and bold, then I would suggest replacing the off.gif image with the on.gif image mashby uploaded and just rename it to off.gif.

I would upload the image but I don't have a image editor on my laptop.

thanks very mcuh for the tips and info but again you didn't answer my other question of changing the color to green and that is why i still haven't mark the topic solve, pleas help for the last time on this topic.

[ade9ja]

OK, I uploaded an animated GIF and I see the animation on my post, but don't see it on your web server. Are you sure you downloaded my attachment and overwrote what was on your web server?

I have to doubt that is true.

I AM STILL WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE ON HOW I CAN CUSTOMIZE THE BOARD ICON COLOR TO GREEN, PLEASE HELP.