I feel kinda stupid asking this with Html 4 For Dummies sitting next to me, but i simply can’t find it: how do you make a certain text float across the screen? An example of this is the “welcome to gwe” from my clan homepage, [url]*****[/url]
@WebJoelJul 10.2007 — #<marquee>Scrolling text part goes in here</marquee>
Adjustments for width, direction, repeat, etc. Look for "marquee" in your book or Google the term. I have not used marquee in years so, do not recall the specifics.
@felgallJul 11.2007 — #Of course Marquee is a proprietary tag that only works in some browsers. If you want something that works in all browsers you need to use JavaScript.
Also the scrolling is a behaviour and not part of the content and so if you are writing your HTML semantically the way you ought to then such tags as marquee should never be used even if they were part of the standards (which they never will be).
@WebJoelJul 11.2007 — #Never say never... I read a small report that something similar to the "marquee" tag will or might be used in CSS3... (or perhaps this was wishful thinking for the author of that page/site which I didn't bookmark...)
@felgallJul 11.2007 — #Well it would make more sense as CSS than as HTML since it could be argued that it is part of the appearance of the page as much as it is part of the behaviour of the page. It certainly isn't part of the content though.
@AugurJul 11.2007 — #I was thinking about doing something like the scrolling headlines on this page, but with custom headlines that I choose. This isn't a Marquee command, it says "ticker" in the sourcecode.
What is the difference, and how hard is this to implement?