Valerie Meunier

Valerie Meunier

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moving text starts wrongly after clicking on button

Aug 29 2022 8:59 AM

Hi

This code must start text moving a number of times according to the value entered in the <input>. The text can only start when 'ronmouseove' event is done over the text, not when the button is clicked. This is what now happens: the text starts moving after clicking on the button by this line: document.getElementById("clem").onmouseover = start(a); But I may as well write something like document.getElementById("clem").xxx = start(a); it also starts.
Any hints? Thanks. V
<html>
<body>
    <div ID="cc" STYLE="position:fixed;top:50px">Moving text!</div>
    Number of times:
    <input id="Text1" type="text" style="width:30px" autofocus />
    <input id="Button1" type="button" value="start" onclick="num()" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var go = document.getElementById("cc");
        var x = 0;
        var y = 0;

        function num() {
            var a = document.getElementById("Text1").value;
            go.onmouseover = start(a);
        }

        function start(z) {
            y += 1;
            if (y < z * 500) 
            {
                if (x < 500) {
                    x += 1;
                    go.style.left = x + "px";
                    if (x == 500) 
                    {
                        x = 0;
                    }
                    setTimeout(start, 10, z); 
                }
            }
         }
    </script>
</body>
 


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