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

Here is a modified version that will turn off the dots after a time.

var count = 0;
var dots = setInterval(function(){
  count++;
  document.getElementById('loadingtext').innerHTML = "Waiting for your input." + new Array(count % 5).join('.');

  if (count == 10){ // show two iterations of the array.
    clearInterval(dots); // stop the dots.
  }
}, 100); // sets the speed

http://jsfiddle.net/Ty4gt/331/