Hi,

I'm trying to create a looping animation that starts on onmousedown and stops on onmouseout. The effect is a simple scroll that will continue looping until you release the mouse.

I've created a function which performs the .animate method and it passes itself as a callback but the code only runs once.

Here's the entire code:

$(document).ready(function() {
var $scroller = $("#scroller");
var $content = $("#content", $scroller);

// lineHeight equal to 1 line of text
var lineHeight = $content.css('line-height');

//Amount to scroll = 3 lines of text a time
var amountToScroll = lineHeight.replace("px","")*3;
var maxScroll = $content.height() - $scroller.height();

function scrollDown() {
    var topCoord = $content.css("top").replace("px","");
    if(topCoord > -maxScroll) {
        if((-maxScroll-topCoord) > -amountToScroll) {
            $content.stop().animate({
                top: -maxScroll
            }, 1000
            );
        }
        else {
            $content.stop().animate({
                top: "-=" + amountToScroll
            }, 1000,
            function(){
                scrollDown()
            }
            );
        }
    }
}

function scrollUp() {
    var topCoord = $content.css("top").replace("px","");
    if(topCoord < 0) {
        if(topCoord > -amountToScroll) {
            $content.stop().animate({
                top: 0
            }, 1000
            );
        }
        else {
            $content.stop().animate({
                top: "+=" + amountToScroll
            }, 1000,
            function(){scrollUp()}
            );
        }
    }
}

$("#scroll-down").mousedown(function() {
    scrollDown();
});

$("#scroll-down").mouseup(function() {
    $content.stop();
});

$("#scroll-up").mousedown(function() {
    scrollUp();
});
$("scroll-up").mouseup(function() {
    $content.stop();
});
});