Scrolling text in a webpage?

Matt

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At work they seem to have the strange idea that scrolling text is a fantastic thing to have on a website. I'm not up for arguing about this quite yet, so what's the best way to achieve this?

I don't want a Java applet, or some 3,000 line Javascript file, as surely this is very simple? It needs to be compliant with standards as well, so bare that in mind!

If anyone has any ideas then that would be great :) It's to be used for a news ticker, and should be in the horizontal direction.


Thanks
 
<MARQUEE>text</MARQUEE> ?

came from the early IE days (or maybe even Mosaic itself). Think it was in the standards up to HTML 3.0. Very deprecated in HTML 4 and technically already gone in XHTML.

If not that, then it'll be Javascript.

Personally they annoy the hell out of me, but if the company wants...
 
Berserker said:
Personally they annoy the hell out of me, but if the company wants...
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I've used marquee as a temp measure, but it's depreciated now. They are well aware of my hatred for scrolling text. I even got a: 'i know you hate it, but can you put a scrolling news ticker on the site?' :p I will win through with my point of view though :)

Anyway, just so i can keep them off my back, does anyone have any javascript for this? All i can find is hugely overcomplicated rubbish :(
 
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