How to Make Text on a Web Page Blink Off & On

Video Transcript

"Did you know the blinking text is responsible for many earthquakes and tsunamis? Hi, I'm Dan Afonso of Afonso Consulting and Enfold IT and I'm going to teach you how to make blinking text on the web page. Blinking text on a web page started off with Netscape Navigator back in the day when they decided that it would be good to have things that would catch your attention. This was of course never overused and never very annoying. Unfortunately, they still support it. It's actually not that tough to do. What we're going to do is we're going to go into our HTML. I'm going to go down to the actual part of it and over here where it says this is not on my home page, I'm going to insert the blink tag. Save this, and when I reload "this is not", now blinks, just as you'd expect. Now, let's bring up Internet Explorer for a second and look at the same page and sure enough it does not blink in there. Now just in case you think you're foiled there's actually a way around this. You can put a little bit of Java script code in your file that will actually take care of this. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to insert the code, right about here in my file and that's that and then the body tag, I'm going to tell to "load this code." So, that says it's going to be on load, okay all set and behold the glory, blinking text on Internet Explorer. Do your worst Internet, do your worst. I'm Dan Afonso and this has been how to create blinking text in a web browser."