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How to make a label disappear after a certain length of time?

I have an asp.net label control which displays messages when users do certain operations on my page. This label control is set to visible="false" until it needs to be displayed, and then programmatically it's visibility is set to "true". When this happens, I don't want it to stay there, I want it to disappear after 5 seconds. What's the best way to do this? Is there an AJAX control that already does this, or do I need some custom Javascript? And if it is Javascript that I need, how do I get the function to fire every time the label's visibility is set to true?

silemone

i think you have to use the asp ajax controls to do this...there is a timer that you can use...there...

silemone

oops...it's not part of the asp ajax control...It's the UpdateProgress...I'm thinking that if you set it for 5 seconds, then you can cause another event to happen after its finished...say: have an event in you page called makeInvisible(). in the makeInvisible call a <asp:button.....style="display:none;"> button which will make label invisible...now, it's important that the label be placed inside of a UpdatePanel and the trigger for that updatePanel be that invisible button...

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Toms Edison

you can hide the label using javascript

add this code after you make label visible in code behind file
ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript("HideLabel()",<time in milliseconds>,true);

//add this function to the page
function HideLabel()
{
document.getElementById("LabelID").style = "display:none";
}

(there could be syntax error)

CitySec

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That was the first solution I tried because it was the easiest to paste and required only one line of code. The other solutions may work too, but I didn't try them. One last question, can I make the label fade out instead of disappear at once?