https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1002443 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/html-css-and-javascript/background-color-change-loop-loop-change-background-color-dosent-seem-work#comment-1010872 <p>This one works, but it's not quite the same thing you were trying to do. The writing to the page seemed to be somehow confusing the script it seems...</p> <p>&lt;html&gt;<br /> &lt;head&gt;<br /> &lt;title&gt;trying time out&lt;/title&gt;<br /> &lt;script Language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;!--<br /> var y=00000;<br /> function callchangecolor()<br /> {<br /> var x=0;<br /> for(x==0;x&lt;6;x++)<br /> {<br /> document.bgColor=y;<br /> alert(&quot;the value of y &quot;+y+&quot;..&quot;&#43;;<br /> //alert(&quot;checking&quot;&#43;;<br /> y=y+54632;<br /> //setTimeout(&quot;callchangecolor()&quot;,5000&#43;;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> //--&gt;<br /> &lt;/script&gt;<br /> &lt;/head&gt;<br /> &lt;body&gt;<br /> &lt;a href=&quot;javascript:callchangecolor()&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;<br /> &lt;/body&gt;<br /> &lt;/html&gt;</p> <p>----------<br /> Page Resource: <a href="http://www.pageresource.com" class="bb-url">http://www.pageresource.com</a><br /> JavaScript City: <a href="http://www.javascriptcity.com" class="bb-url">http://www.javascriptcity.com</a></p> Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:47:00 +0000 John Pollock comment 1010872 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net