Marquee #6: The Stop Button

This script repeats the functionality of Marquee #2, with an added "stop" button.




Discussion

Halt timeout-loops by calling clearTimeout on the current timeout process. In this example of the onClick event handler, onClick="clearTimeout(JSCTimeOutID)" clears the pending event and prevents the setMessage() event from executing and hence, from starting a new timeout.
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