User:Disassemblyline/Rainbow blinkies test

this page has been kept here for reference purposes, should the admins need to recreate this bs an nth time. the blinkies work and do not require the below code. you can safely ignore this page entirely.

rainbow blinkies have been broken for a while, but ive got a workaround. the downside is that it requires you to copy & paste a little bit of code. hopefully an admin will add one extra class to each of the rainbow blinkie templates (class="blinker" specifically) as a fallback, after that it should work for anyone who has the below code in their custom .js file (eg, User:YourName/monobook.js).

broken example

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working example

this will not work unless the below javascript is saved into your sandbox'd monobook.js <--this link is most likely a red link which is the core reason why this example will not work for you.

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fix the above example using javascript

paste the following into the above glaring red links:

var blinkers; //var used to hold all elements with the class "blinker"
function start_blinking()
{
	blinkers = document.getElementsByClassName('blinker'); //find those rainbow blinkies
	if (blinkers)
	{
		setInterval(function(){toggleBlinkHandler();}, 1000); //interval to run it
	}
}
function toggleBlinkHandler()
{
	toggleBlink();
	setTimeout(function(){toggleBlink();}, 650); //interval to turn it off
}
function toggleBlink()
{
	for(var i = 0; i < blinkers.length; i++)
	{
		if(blinkers[i].style.visibility == 'visible')
		{
			blinkers[i].style.visibility = 'hidden'; //___
		}
		else
		{
			blinkers[i].style.visibility = 'visible'; //LOL
		}
	}
}
window.addEventListener("load", start_blinking, false); //hook

you can see a live working example of rainbow blinkies here as a proof of concept without saving the above javascript (please, view the source - its the exact same code). most of the templates are mirrored.