I'm building a website that looks like it's reading code from the Matrix

Question

Below is part of my code. I actually have 30 paragraphs. How can I get a similar result without writing every single paragraph? And how can I make the page update automatically ever 0.5 second or so?

html:

css: body { background-color: black; } p { display: inline-block; float: left; color: green; margin-right: 10px; }

javascript: var showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); var allNumbers = 100; document.getElementById("p1"); document.getElementById("p2"); document.getElementById("p3"); document.getElementById("p4"); document.getElementById("p5"); while (allNumbers > 0) { p1.innerHTML = p1.innerHTML + " " + showNumber; showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); p2.innerHTML = p2.innerHTML + " " + showNumber; showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); p3.innerHTML = p3.innerHTML + " " + showNumber; showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); p4.innerHTML = p4.innerHTML + " " + showNumber; showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); p5.innerHTML = p5.innerHTML + " " + showNumber; showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); allNumbers = allNumbers - 1; showNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10); }

Answer 1 · 2018-03-18T20:45:38Z

March 18, 2018 8:45pm

Don't forget to assign your paragraph variables. You might not have realized this was missing because most browsers will do this for you for legacy reasons, but it should not be counted on:

var p1 = document.getElementById("p1");  /*
^^^^^^^^   assign variable!              */

You can also save a lot of repeated code by creating a function to return a random digit, and calling it in the loop.

I'm not sure what you have in mind "without writing every single paragraph". but instead re-writing the entire paragraph you might remove the first digit (and line break) and and another one to the end.

Finally, if you wrap the entire loop in a function, you could use "setInterval" to call that function every ½ second (500 ms).

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