Blink Text on html page

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-10-10T10:23:00

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Well, that can be CSS animation. Please see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20270096/how-to-make-text-blink-on-website[^].

There use to be the <blink> element, majorly removed from support. Why do you think it was dropped? I think because it would be very annoying. I would recommend you to never even use blinking. It can be so irritating, that many users may choose to leave your site and never come back. Want to try it? It's your choice, but consider I warned you.

—SA

Posted 10-Oct-14 10:23am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 10-Oct-14 10:25am

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LLLLGGGG 10-Oct-14 16:54pm

If you use CSS there is also

text-decoration: blink

However I completely agree with Sergey saying that blinking text is really annoying on a webpage as the eye is disturbed by this blinking text. I personally ignore completely blinking texts because they are mainly used in fraudulent advertisements which main aim is only to steal you money...

LG

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Oct-14 17:03pm

Ah, that's right. And you made a good point about fraudulent ads — that's true, unfortunately. Will you add your own answer then?
—SA

LLLLGGGG · Answer 2 · 2014-10-11T07:16:00

You can even use CSS:

CSS

text-decoration: blink;

But it will work just with few older browsers as it was deprecated because of the explaination given there (http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-decoration/[^]) and in my comment:

"However I completely agree with Sergey saying that blinking text is really annoying on a webpage as the eye is disturbed by this blinking text. I personally ignore completely blinking texts because they are mainly used in fraudulent advertisements which main aim is only to steal you money...".

So keep in mind that if you use it people can stop to watch whta you've created and some people (with illnesses such as Epilepsy
[^]) can even get damaged by this blinking elements (according to Gianluca Troiani CSS - third edition, Apogeo). And remember also that if users leave your page and do not come back because of those elements, your SEO ranking will hopeless decrease...

It's your choice whether using it or not, but I suggest you not to use it.

Hope this helped...

LG

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