Displaying text and then removing it...

I wanna display some text for 5 seconds and then remove it, this is the code i got so far...


document.getElementById('option' + id).innerHTML += 'You have already voted';


this displays the text in the right place, but i want it to only last for 3 or 4 seconds and then remove itself...

anyone got any ideas?

you could do
function settext(thevalue,id){
document.getElementById('option'+id).innerHTML = thevalue;
}
window.setTimeout(settext('',1),3000);

or maybe even

window.setTimeout(function(){document.getElementBy Id('option'+id).innerHTML = thevalue;},3000);

Im not sure if the second one will work, but I cant see why not.

hope that helps or is understandable

well the second one worked, once i removed the 'window' bit from the front...

but that waited 3 seconds and then displayed the text...

i wanted to immediately display the text and then remove it after 3 seconds...

ok try

then you just call that function to set the text for that given box.
e.g
settext(boxidhere);