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Bullet Spinner - an ajax-style loading spinner using padding and setInterval

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function(
e, //the target element where you want to be inserted
i, //the initial position of the bullet
t, //the tick time in milliseconds
a //placeholder, the reference array of padding pixels
){
a="01478741"; //an 8 character string that serves as an array for padding pixels
return setInterval(function(){ //return an interval id so that the interval can be stopped with clearInterval
e.innerHTML="•"; //populate the target element with a bullet (didn't use unicode since the example section doesn't define a charset)
e.style.padding= //update the padding of the target element to move the bullet around
a[i++%8]+ //top padding increments the tick counter and selects one of the numbers from the reference array
"px 0 0 "+ //right and bottom padding are zero
a[(i+1)%8]+ //left padding (like the top padding) uses reference array, only offset by one to make the circular spinning coordinates
"px" //finish the padding string, end result looks something like "1px 0 0 7px"
},t) //set the interval to fire a tick every t milliseconds
}
function(e,i,t,a){a="01478741";return setInterval(function(){e.innerHTML="•";e.style.padding=a[i++%8]+"px 0 0 "+a[(i+1)%8]+"px"},t)}
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
{
"name": "bulletSpinner",
"description": "Bullet Spinner - an ajax-style loading spinner using padding and setInterval.",
"keywords": [
"ajax",
"animation",
"spinner",
"loading",
"interval"
]
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>Bullet Spinner</title>
<div style="height:50px">
Simple functionality:
<div id=target></div>
</div>
<div style="height:50px">
Layered functionality:
<div id=target1 style="position:absolute;color:#ddd"></div>
<div id=target2 style="position:absolute;color:#555"></div>
<div id=target3 style="position:absolute;color:#000"></div>
</div>
<script>
var myFunction = function(e,i,t,a){a="01478741";return setInterval(function(){e.innerHTML="&bull;";e.style.padding=a[i++%8]+"px 0 0 "+a[(i+1)%8]+"px"},t)};
//Simple functionality
var loading = myFunction(document.getElementById("target"), 0, 99);
//Layered functionality
var loading1 = myFunction(document.getElementById("target1"), 1, 99);
var loading2 = myFunction(document.getElementById("target2"), 2, 99);
var loading3 = myFunction(document.getElementById("target3"), 3, 99);
//Stop spinning
//clearInterval(loading);
</script>
</html>
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tsaniel commented Mar 19, 2014

(i+1)%8 can be replaced with -~i%8

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