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setTimeout repeats my animation

How can I make the animation only happens once for every added div element? https://code.sololearn.com/WnzTsid60Ly9/?ref=app

19th Oct 2018, 10:11 AM
Fernando Moceces
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I suspect that the issue originates from how the DOM is re-rendered each time an element is added, causing the animation to restart Using appendChild of a newly created div instead of concatanating as a string seems to do the trick https://code.sololearn.com/WSa4148CYDf9/?ref=app
19th Oct 2018, 10:48 AM
Burey
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Burey Interesting; wrapping it. It also appears to work okay setting all the properties of the div: https://code.sololearn.com/W4QETsbY5Y79/?ref=app
19th Oct 2018, 4:17 PM
Kirk Schafer
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Kirk Schafer nice Was wondering if that would work as well
19th Oct 2018, 4:21 PM
Burey
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KrOW Burey I think you're both on the right track. I think once the text is rendered, Javascript has the object model ready and can automatically handle additional objects and their interactions -- but change the object-generating *text* and JS must run the entire "text file" again to learn what you changed and how it becomes the object model. I hadn't thought this all the way through before, but there was a 3D Sphere code here that I optimized by converting the 100's of text injections to 100's of objects instead. IIRC, it really helped its load time and this feels like why.
19th Oct 2018, 11:10 PM
Kirk Schafer
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Kirk Schafer another mystery unlocked 😮 Nice explanation
19th Oct 2018, 11:22 PM
Burey
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Thank you very much, guys :)
19th Oct 2018, 6:14 PM
Fernando Moceces
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I think that its normal because set the innerHTML to another value its same like remove all childs and append new ones BUT at this point, all animation will restarts
19th Oct 2018, 7:06 PM
KrOW
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