Make this function animate?

[kbc1]

Hi all

On an onlick event of a 'next' or 'previous' hyperlink, I change an image and some text on screen and store the 'currentstep' in a hidden field. My function to do this is below.

I now need to figure out a way to make this happen automatically so whena user visist the page, the function will run and animate onto the next step, and so on..

COuld anyone offer advice on how I can get this to automtaically run?

function navigateToText (direction) {
	var currentstep = document.getElementById("cs");
	var nextstep 	= 0;
	var prevstep 	= 0;
	var whichstep   = 0;
	
	switch (currentstep.value) {
		case '1':
		default:
			nextstep = 2;
			prevstep = 5;
		break;
		case '2':
			nextstep = 3;
			prevstep = 1;
		break;
		case '3':
			nextstep = 4;
			prevstep = 2;
		break;
		case '4':
			nextstep = 5;
			prevstep = 3;
		break;
		case '5':
			nextstep = 1;
			prevstep = 4;
		break;
	}
	
	if (direction == "back") {
		whichstep = prevstep;
	} else {
		whichstep = nextstep;
	}
	
	switchText(whichstep);
	currentstep.value = whichstep;
}

Many thanks for reading
kbc