Dynamic Drive- Flying Letters

Flying Letters

Author: Twey @ DD Forums

Description: Animate your site's header into view, one letter at a time, with this one-of-a-kind script! Tested in Firefox 1.0.7, Opera 8.51, Konqueror 3.5.0-1.2 and IE 6.

Demo:

Thanks for visiting$Dynamic Drive!

Directions

Simply add the below code to the <BODY> of your page:

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<h2 id="fly">Thanks for visiting$Dynamic Drive!</h2> <script type="text/javascript"> //Flying Letters script- by Matthias (info@freejavascripts.f2s.com) // Modified by Twey for efficiency and compatibility //For this script and more, visit Dynamic Drive: http://www.dynamicdrive.com //Configure message to display. Use "$" for linebreak //By default, set to just grab the text from element with ID="fly" message = document.getElementById("fly").innerHTML; // $ = taking a new line distance = 50; // pixel(s) speed = 200; // milliseconds var txt="", num=0, num4=0, flyofle="", flyofwi="", flyofto="", fly=document.getElementById("fly"); function stfly() { for(i=0;i != message.length;i++) { if(message.charAt(i) != "$") txt += "<span style='position:relative;visibility:hidden;' id='n"+i+"'>"+message.charAt(i)+"<\/span>"; else txt += "<br>"; } fly.innerHTML = txt; txt = ""; flyofle = fly.offsetLeft; flyofwi = fly.offsetWidth; flyofto = fly.offsetTop; fly2b(); } function fly2b() { if(num4 != message.length) { if(message.charAt(num4) != "$") { var then = document.getElementById("n" + num4); then.style.left = flyofle - then.offsetLeft + flyofwi / 2; then.style.top = flyofto - then.offsetTop + distance; fly3(then.id, parseInt(then.style.left), parseInt(then.style.left) / 5, parseInt(then.style.top), parseInt(then.style.top) / 5); } num4++; setTimeout("fly2b()", speed); } } function fly3(target,lef2,num2,top2,num3) { if((Math.floor(top2) != 0 && Math.floor(top2) != -1) || (Math.floor(lef2) != 0 && Math.floor(lef2) != -1)) { if(lef2 >= 0) lef2 -= num2; else lef2 += num2 * -1; if(Math.floor(lef2) != -1) { document.getElementById(target).style.visibility = "visible"; document.getElementById(target).style.left = Math.floor(lef2); } else { document.getElementById(target).style.visibility = "visible"; document.getElementById(target).style.left = Math.floor(lef2 + 1); } if(lef2 >= 0) top2 -= num3 else top2 += num3 * -1; if(Math.floor(top2) != -1) document.getElementById(target).style.top = Math.floor(top2); else document.getElementById(target).style.top = Math.floor(top2 + 1); setTimeout("fly3('"+target+"',"+lef2+","+num2+","+top2+","+num3+")",50) } } stfly() </script>