Punctuation loading “animation”, javascript?

Question

I\'m looking for a good way to display some punctuation loading \"animation\".

What I want is something like this:

This will display at second 1: \"Waiti         


        

Answer 1

The trick to making a string of dots is to make a sparse Array and then join all the elements with the desired character.

var count = 0;
setInterval(function(){
    count++;
    var dots = new Array(count % 10).join('.');
    document.getElementById('loadingtext').innerHTML = "Waiting for your input." + dots;
  }, 1000);

Here is a Live demo.