Topic awaiting preservation: function calling

I'm trynig to create atimed fade out of text when a mouse is taken away from an <a> tag. That's no problem (I'm getting the hang of the basic js programming) but while the timer is going nothing happens when the mouse is over the other <a> tags. Each <a> tag calls its own function from a single external js script. Is there a way to add to the timer function that says if any of the other onMouseOver functions are called then ignore the timer?

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Whenever you set a timer using setTimeout() you can assign it to an id:

mytimer = setTimeout( ... )

Then if you need to cancel that original timer function for any reason, like another mouseover, you can clear it:

clearTimeout( mytimer )

Does this sound like what you wanted to do?

bugimus, that sound like what I want to do, but my timer function didn't use setTimeout at all it was a for loop "(i=5000;i>=0;i=i-1) was what I was using. then I set the innerHTML of my div to nothing so the text would disappear. How would I use the setTimeout to do it instead?

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