[SOLVED] createElement Gif not comes up paused

[nadeemshafi9]

hello everyone

 

i have a deep searchengine that takes a while, i need to put a loading gif in there for some reason it dosent animate when it comes up, it animates a few times then anfter a few successfull searches the gif appears in the mid screen but is still paused.

 

here is my code all sorts of things happen like some other gifs dont appear for some reason and somtimes they do if i replace it whith another gif ?????? i am using firefox on OSX 10.4 on mac power pc

 

//place a searching icon in mid screen

function showsearchloading() {

image1 = document.createElement("IMG");

image1.setAttribute("src", "images/common/spinner_disc.gif");

image1.setAttribute("id", "searchimage");

image1.setAttribute("style", "z-index: 10; position: absolute; left: 45%; top: 40%;");

document.getElementById("maincontentarea").appendChild(image1);

}

 

any help welcome thanks

[nadeemshafi9]

it seems to hbe ok now i think it was another error that i re imaged back to normal now its ok.

[nadeemshafi9]

its paused again it starts playing when i press enter in the search textbox again after submitting it ????

[nadeemshafi9]

it animates with javascript: func() in the link

 

but i whant it to animate when i press enter in the searchbox instead it comes up paused untill i press enter again ??????

[fenway]

When is this code running? Are you creating that element multiple times? A link we can visit to see?

[nadeemshafi9]

i fixed it by using the timout recall in javascript