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Current time:

Time chosen by user:
Count down from user input: ____ seconds.

Your input (hh-mm): . ,    :   
Daily News
Initial caps are a great a way to dress up your text. You can use them to draw attention to the beginning of an article. The intial caps used here are commonly called drop caps.

When you use the :first-letter pseudo-element on a paragraph, the first letter of the paragraph displays the styles you apply to it. The first letter can can display different colors, sizes, fonts, and other CSS attributes.
New features in Internet Explorer 5.5 include the first-line pseudo-element. This allows authors to create typographical effects that are applied to the first line of a block of text.

Make Your Apps Behave with Windows Management Instrumentation. These new MSDN Magazine articles introduce WMI, a technology that enables remote management of Windows-based systems and applications. (April 5, Technical Article)

Improving ASP Application Performance. MSDN Online Voices server technologies columnist J.D. Meier provides suggestions for ASP apps, and the set of questions he uses when looking at performance issues. (April 4, Column)
Use the new features in the Microsoft® MSHTML Editing Platform to take advantage of the new extensibility features of the Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 editing platform.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Breaking News: This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news. This is some breaking news.

Click anywhere within this news alert to close the pop-up window.
**Note: This is not an actual news bulletin. It is for demonstration purposes only.

This example demonstrates how to set a timed element to begin at a wallclock value.

To view the DIV that is to appear on April 1, 2005, enter a begin time in the input boxes that is greater than the current time shown.

Click the 'Set begin time' button.

The DIV containing the message "Breaking News: This is some breaking news..." appears at the time you have specified and displays until you click within the object.

By default, the message is set to begin on April 1st, 2005.

Click either box located in the top left and right hand corners of this document to close this popup.

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