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Passing parameters to a function called with setTimeout

18 October 2007

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When creating my news ticker plugin, I came across a slight complication when using setTimeout() to calling a function which needed parameters passed to it. Not having had much call to use setTimeout in the past, I simply put:
```
setTimeout(myFunction(parameter)...
```
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Problems with opacity in Internet Explorer

18 May 2007

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The text suddenly gained a strange - and ugly - border effectHere’s a strange one I came across the other day. I’m posting this in the hope that I’ll save someone out there some time in the future. I was applying a fade-out effect to a news ticker, and all was going well (thank you Yahoo! User Interface library!) until I was ready to test in Internet Explorer.

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Bryan Gullan

Senior Project Manager at Torchbox, a web development agency based in Oxfordshire. I’ve a particular interest in accessibility and web standards.

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