JavaScript simulates typing effect

JavaScript can simulate the typing effect. It is a very creative little script that can be used as a 404 page. Of course, it can also be used in many places. First save the string that needs to be printed into an array in advance, and then use the setTimeout() method to output one character every short period of time, and the serial effect is like typing.

Code

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var tl = new Array(
    "I am so sorry, but I can&#39;t find the Page you&#39;ve requested.",
    "It&#39;s possible that you entered the address incorrectly.",
    "If you did enter the address correctly, then it must be my fault.",
    "I am really, really sorry, but I&#39;ve tried everything I know to find it.",
    "Nothing helped.",
    "I am really depressed about this.",
    "You see, I&#39;m just a web server...",
    "...here I am, brain the size of the universe, trying to serve you a simple web page...",
    "And then it doesn&#39;t even exist!",
    "Where does that leave me?!",
    "I mean, I don&#39;t even know you.",
    "How should I know what you wanted from me?",
    "You honestly think I can &#39;guess&#39; what someone I don&#39;t even &#39;know&#39; wants to find here?",
    "",
    "Maybe I should introduce myself... my name is Marvin.",
    "But then again, what is the use of intruducing myself?",
    "You can&#39;t tell me your name, because you are in some far off place, sitting in front of your computer.",
    "And that makes me feel lonely.",
    "Do you know what that is like?",
    "",
    "...sigh...",
    "",
    "Man, I am so depressed I could just cry.",
    "And then where would we be, I ask you?",
    "It&#39;s not pretty when a web server cries.",
    "And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?",
    "I&#39;m just a web server...",
    "...and possibly a manic depressive one at that...",
    "So why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?",
    "Huh?",
    "",
    "I am so depressed...",
    "I think I&#39;ll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.",
    "I mean, I&#39;m gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?",
    "What kind of a life is that?",
    "Two effing weeks...",
    "...and then I&#39;ll be replaced by a .01 release, that thinks it&#39;s God&#39;s gift to web servers,",
    "just because it doesn&#39;t have some tiddly little security hole with its HTTP POST implementation,",
    "or something like that.",
    "",
    "I&#39;m really sorry to burden you with all this,",
    "I mean, it&#39;s not your job to listen to my problems,",
    "and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you.",
    "But I couldn&#39;t get this one.",
    "I am so sorry.",
    "Believe me!",
    "",
    "Maybe I could interest you in another page?",
    "There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,",
    "although none of them were put on &#39;my&#39; server, of course.",
    "Figures, huh?",
    "That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them, all day and all night long.",
    "Two weeks of information overload, and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.",
    "Again I ask you, what kind of a life is that?",
    "",
    "Now, please let me sulk alone.",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "I am so depressed.",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "<connection terminated>"
);
var speed = 50;
var index = 0; 
text_pos = 0;
var str_length = tl[0].length;
var contents, row;
  
function type_text()
{
    contents=&#39;&#39;;
    row = Math.max(0,index-7);
    while(row < index)
    {
        contents += tl[row++] + &#39;\r\n&#39;;
    }
    //document.forms[0].elements[0].value = contents + tl[index].substring(0,text_pos) + "_";
    document.getElementById("typearea").value = contents + tl[index].substring(0,text_pos) + "_";
    if(text_pos++==str_length)
    {
        text_pos=0;
        index++;
        if(index!=tl.length)
        {
            str_length=tl[index].length;
            setTimeout("type_text()",1500);
        }
    } 
    else
        setTimeout("type_text()",speed);
}
//-->
</script> 
      
<form> 
    <textarea id="typearea" rows="20" cols="100" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:14px; "></textarea> 
</form> 
<script type="text/javascript">type_text();</script>