parentTimeBegin Property

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This topic documents a feature of HTML+TIME 2.0, which is obsolete as of Windows Internet Explorer 9.

Gets the begin time of the current element as an offset from the begin time of the parent element.

Syntax

[ iTime = ] currTimeState.parentTimeBegin

Possible Values

iTime Integer that receives the begin time of the current element, in seconds.

The property is read-only. The property has no default value.

Example

This example uses the parentTimeBegin property to retrieve the begin time of the element.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML XMLNS:t="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:time">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>parentTimeBegin Property</TITLE>
<SCRIPT>
function getValue(){
    parentBegin.innerText += div1.currTimeState.parentTimeBegin + ' second(s)';
}
</SCRIPT>
<STYLE>
    .time { behavior: url(#default#time2) }
</STYLE>

<?IMPORT namespace="t" implementation="#default#time2">
</HEAD>

<BODY TOPMARGIN=0 LEFTMARGIN=0 BGPROPERTIES="fixed" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
    LINK="#000000" VLINK="#808080" ALINK="#000000">
<B>Document timer:</B>
<SPAN id="Timer1" class="time" dur=".01" repeatCount="indefinite" fill="hold"
    onrepeat="innerText=parseInt(document.body.currTimeState.activeTime);">0</SPAN>
<BR>
<B>Time container timer:</B>
<SPAN id="Timer2" class="time" dur=".01" repeatCount="indefinite" fill="hold"
    onrepeat="innerText=parseInt(t1.currTimeState.activeTime);">0</SPAN>
<BR><BR>

<t:excl ID="t1" repeatDur="indefinite" onbegin="getValue();">
    <DIV ID="div1" CLASS="time" BEGIN="1" DUR="5"
        style="position:relative;top:5px;left:0px;width:550px;height:100px;
        background-color:yellow;text-align:center;font-size:large">
        This div begins at 1 second and has a duration of 5 seconds. The parent
        element's repeatDur property is set to "indefinite".
    </DIV>
</t:excl>

<BR>
<B>parentTimeBegin</B><SPAN id="parentBegin"> - Element's begin time as an offset
    from parent element's begin time: </SPAN><BR>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/behaviors/parenttimebegin.htm

Applies To

currTimeState

See Also

Introduction to HTML+TIME