A question about the <marquee> HTML command

**vmaster218** · January 26th, 2003, 11:41 PM

On my page, http://kiekie218.freewebsitehosting.com/premainpg, there is a REALLY long marquee statement! I was wondering if there's any way to control it (ie-speed, line cutoff, parallel lines, etc)

**Dahvid** · January 27th, 2003, 02:10 AM

try just dividing the sentence in half and putting in on 2 different lines both with the <marquee> flag.

**invader** · January 27th, 2003, 07:34 AM

You can do a marquee with a different size and color font.
You can even add a colored background.

Here's the tags to do this with:

<HTML>

<MARQUEE BGCOLOR="ORANGE">
This is really groovy!
</MARQUEE>

</HTML>

Speed :

<HTML>

<MARQUEE SCROLLAMOUNT="1">
This is scrollamount="1"
</MARQUEE>

</HTML>

Here's how to control the distance the marquee will travel across the screen.

<HTML>

<MARQUEE WIDTH="50%">
This is 50%
</MARQUEE>

</HTML>

You can control marquee behavior. This is how to do alternate behavior.

<HTML>

<MARQUEE BEHAVIOR="ALTERNATE">
This is alternate behavior.
<MARQUEE>

</HTML>

or change directions?
Let's do it like this:

<HTML>

<MARQUEE DIRECTION="RIGHT">
This is direction right.
</MARQUEE>

</HTML>

There is also a behavior slide?

<HTML>

<MARQUEE BEHAVIOR="SLIDE">
This is behavior slide.
</MARQUEE>

</HTML>

To change it's direction to right, edit the line to :

<MARQUEE BEHAVIOR="SLIDE" DIRECTION="RIGHT">

See ya,
-inv

***the_JinX*** · January 27th, 2003, 11:09 AM

[pong]IMHO those Marquee's are realy irritating...

but you are ofcourse allowed to use them, since they are W3C vallid html 4.01..

each to his own, I'd say..[/pong]

w00ps.. ur right slarty...

My bad... I thought they added the marquee statement..

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_MARQUEE.html

***slarty*** · January 27th, 2003, 01:03 PM

the_JinX:

but you are ofcourse allowed to use them, since they are W3C vallid html 4.01..

Since when, exactly? Funny I cannot see them on the W3C's list of HTML 4.01 elements here?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html

MARQUEE is, to the best of my knowledge, TOTALLY Microsoft IE Specific, not supported by any other browser, and a complete waste of time as it's entirely tasteless and makes sites look hideous.

So in answer to the OP: Just don't use them, they will make IE users vomit at how hideous your site looks, and have no effect on anyone else.

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