Text fading in and out

[soccer1970]

How do I make text fade in and out like this:

<snipped url>

(scroll down a little)

element.fadeOut() does not seem to be valid javascript when I try it, but it works on this page. What am I missing?

[edited by: whoisgregg at 11:49 pm (utc) on Feb. 2, 2010]
[edit reason] Whoops, no URLs please. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] :) [/edit]

[whoisgregg]

If you find a function in another site that doesn't work on your site, they're probably including additional scripts that define that function. Look for <script> tags with an src="" attribute and value to look at the source code of included scripts.

Particularly for special effects, they're probably using one of the big effects libraries out there like Prototype & Scriptaculous, mooTools, or jQuery.

[soccer1970]

Thanks! Looks like it's jquery. I was hoping it was built-in to javascript, somehow.