As mentioned in the title im curious if i can create an animated countdown with numbered text or number icons. Thanks for your help.

Maybe it’s good to edit the post with a warning not to use it.

Ok, so I’ve come to the same conclusion @NigelG did in another post: Auction Date Countdown . The best solution is using an HTML element set to iframe with a javascript timer inside. Any internal Bubble solution would require data to be changed every second, which creates far too many workflow call…

Actually you can run a workflow every second to set a custom state of “currentdate” on an element. You can then use some modulo maths to get the days/hours/minutes/seconds. Which is what I am doing here … [image] As there is no database access, it doesn’t count as a workflow.

That sounds interesting Nigel, could you post an example please?

That’s a truly awesome solution, thanks Nigel! You’re sure the “Do every 1 second” workflow doesn’t count in the monthly call limit?

As long as there is no database access, then it shouldn’t. I did just check and am not seeing an increase every second. Just don’t put a data condition on it !

Excellent, I’ve just implemented your solution in my quiz and it’s working perfectly. Thanks so much Nigel!

does anyone know how to make a stopwatch timer? The stopwatch would show 00:00:00 when page is loaded and if user clicks START button the numbers start counting up by .01 seconds? and if they hit STOP the numbers stop counting. if anyone could show an example that would be awesome. Or if @NigelG ’s s…

Is an animated countdown with numbers possible?

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NigelG August 14, 2016, 12:52pm 25

Sure.

https://buildingonbubble.com/block/formatted-countdown-1471178176900x842421891177381900

P.s. this a tweaked version of airdev’s countdown that uses modulo to make it simpler.And the original idea came from Scott.

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