Inside JavaScript

The begin Property

This property is for use with the time and time2 behaviors built into the Internet Explorer, and first appeared in Internet Explorer 5.5. The begin property is a read/write property that sets or gets the delay time before a "timeline" begins playing in an element and enables you to coordinate multimedia actions. You can assign this property a string in clock format like " h:min:s.f " ; or an event occurrence, given an element ID such as this: id. event [+" h:min:s.f "] (where the time in square brackets is optional); or a value of "indefinite" , which means the begin time is determined by a call to the beginElement method. See Chapter 15, "Working with the Mouse, Keyboard, and Images," for more on Internet behaviors, such as time and time2 .