t:BEGINAFTER Attribute | beginAfter Property?deprecated)

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Sets or retrieves a value indicating that the timeline of an element starts when the referenced element ends.

Syntax

XML <ELEMENT t:BEGINAFTER = sID... >
Scripting object.beginAfter [ = sID ]

XML	<ELEMENT t:BEGINAFTER = sID... >
Scripting	object.beginAfter [ = sID ]

Possible Values

sID String that specifies the unique identifier of another timed element within the current time scope. The timeline begins on the current element when the referenced element ends. For more information about time scope, see the Remarks section.
The property is read/write. The property has no default value.

Remarks

This property is deprecated. For similar functionality, refer to the begin property available with the time2 behavior.
This property supports relative sequential timing. You can offset the start time by specifying a nonzero value for the t:BEGIN attribute on the element. This indicates that the timeline should start at a specified amount of time after the timeline on the referenced element ends. If the referenced element has an indefinite duration, the timeline on the current element does not start. This property cannot be used on the same element as the t:BEGINEVENT or t:BEGINWITH attribute.
The current time scope is defined by the closest parent time container created with the t:TIMELINE attribute or the t:PAR or t:SEQ element. All timed elements within the same parent time container (time siblings) share the current time scope. If no time containers are explicitly declared, the document root is defined as the parent time container. In this case, all timed elements in the document would share the current time scope. To create timing dependencies between elements in different time scopes, use the t:BEGINEVENT attribute instead of the t:BEGINAFTER attribute.
The prefix t is used to associate this attribute with an XML namespace.

Example

This example uses the t:BEGINAFTER and t:BEGIN attributes to make a paragraph appear one second after the first paragraph disappears. -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
.time        	{ behavior: url(#default#time);}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white">
<SPAN ID="span1" CLASS=time STYLE="COLOR:Red;" t:BEGIN="2" t:DUR="5"
t:TIMEACTION="display">
<H3>Paragraph 1</H3>
<P>This is paragraph number one. It appears 2 seconds after the
page is loaded and remains displayed for 5 seconds.</P>
</SPAN>
<SPAN CLASS=time STYLE="COLOR:Blue;" t:BEGIN="1" t:BEGINAFTER="span1"
t:TIMEACTION="display">
<H3>Paragraph 2</H3>
<P>This is paragraph number two. It appears one second after the
first paragraph disappears, and remains displayed indefinitely.</P>
</SPAN>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Standards Information

This property is defined in HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) 1.0 .

Applies To

t:AUDIO, t:IMG, t:MEDIA, t:PAR, t:SEQ, time, t:VIDEO