Title: How do they do THAT?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# How do they do THAT?

 *  [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/)
 * Hi,
    Take a look at [http://www.orkut.com](http://www.orkut.com) – but do watch
   it load, and then navigate inside it. How do they make the text appear before
   your eyes? Is that CSS?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42780)
 * That looks like they are playing with small gif’s.
    [http://www.orkut.com/img/ta1.gif](http://www.orkut.com/img/ta1.gif)
   through to [http://www.orkut.com/img/ta7.gif](http://www.orkut.com/img/ta7.gif)
   seem to be doing something ….
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42812)
 * Cept it doesn’t seem to run in Firefox.
 *  [tcervo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcervo/)
 * (@tcervo)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42813)
 * Works fine in my Firefox…if it’s the fade-in of the text you’re talking about…
 *  [stevarino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevarino/)
 * (@stevarino)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42825)
 * Heh heh, I was about to use this on a project at work. On a hunch I tried it 
   without javascript. Needless to say the words never faded in, leaving me with
   a lot of white and some oddly spaced links. :\
    Maybe I won’t be using this after
   all…
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42827)
 * even works on opera.
    google does do things that are all browser compatible at
   last…
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42832)
 * OK I see it now. Looks cool. May be a tad slower? But cool. Really.
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42857)
 * Yes, i find it really cool. Stevarino, do you think it is possible to adapt that
   so that my post’s texts fade in like that in WP?
    Sure, i would stick the code
   in my head tag, but i have no idea what it is doing, aside from guessing that
   it increases the value of a color attribute…
 *  [stevarino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevarino/)
 * (@stevarino)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42876)
 * Heh heh, you guessed right. All it’s doing is increasing the color attribute 
   from white to black. The one thing you’ll need to change is “ws” to either “rap”(
   for the entire page to fade in) or “content” (for the “content” div to fade in,
   but not the sidebar). Then in your <body> tag add the attribute “`onload="sa()"`”
   so you have <body onload=”sa()”>.
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42880)
 * Thank you, Stevarino. I am trying it at home, locally, and it almost works, just
   two quirks:
    1) when using Safari, the text shows imediately in black, then it
   turns white in a jump and then fades in. 2) using Firefox, the text is never 
   shown, stays white all the time. Can’t check with IE, it was never able to load
   my page when served locally (weird program). Would you know what isn’t working
   right?
 *  [stevarino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevarino/)
 * (@stevarino)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42885)
 * As far as the firefox problem, no clue! 😀
    Are you serving the text as text/
   html or application/xhtml+xml? There seems to be some new rules when dealing 
   with xml and javascript.
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42887)
 * Ha! The Firefox problem doesn’t exist online, only when seeing locally. It is
   just a slower fade-in on Firefox.
    Seems we were typing at the same time – only
   after i posted that i had to change the default text color, as Orkut did, i saw
   your suggestion. I am going to try it now, it will be better if it works. (i 
   am using the content div only)
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42890)
 * I just tried your suggestion, and it works like a charm. Just have to use rgb(
   255,255,255). And of course change to “content”.
    Looks nice on a mostly-text
   blog. Thank you very much!
 *  [stevarino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevarino/)
 * (@stevarino)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42898)
 * Oooh, I just checked out the site. Very cool effect! Did you know it even works
   with the translate links? 😀
 *  Thread Starter [anatman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anatman/)
 * (@anatman)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-42907)
 * Yes, i tried it, and i was impressed! Thanks a lot for your help, i wouldn’t 
   have made it work without it.
 *  [mindsap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindsap/)
 * (@mindsap)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-they-do-that/#post-43544)
 * I’d like to use this as well. Any tutorials or instructions for setting this 
   up in WP 1.5? I tried to add it to the plug in directory and changed the ending
   from phps to php, but that didn’t work. I then edited the script to say “content”
   where rap was and altered the body tag to <body onload=”sa()”>.. still no avail.
   Some well guided assitance would be appreciated!

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