<marquee></marquee>

purplehaze357 · January 30, 2003, 7:10pm

is there a way to get the marquee to scroll vertically rather than the horizontally?..

Joe Troy Jr.
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Duke_13370 · January 30, 2003, 7:22pm

No, not with just that tag, but prolly with java, javascript, DHTML, oranynumber of other things
– DONT USE IT ANYWAY!

it isn’t complient with some browsers and is rather outdated.

jonathan_lall · January 30, 2003, 9:04pm

…And it is rather ugly, and isn’t part of the HTML spec. You could probably easily get a Javascript solution.

apk · January 30, 2003, 9:54pm

Yes, you can use the marquee tag to have text move vertically

I just checked and this does work, but remember that (as far as i know) this will only work on IE and the vertically moving part may be farly new (at least 5.0, could be earlyer) you can also use the values: down, left, or right in place of ‘up’.

Joe_Matt · January 30, 2003, 10:00pm

But the problem still remains that the text scrolls to fast to read. WAY TO FAST. I recomend Java app (but sometimes those act up) or a simple .gif if it’s a small text marque.

DarkJedi613 · February 6, 2003, 9:10pm

<marquee direction=“up” scrollamount=“n”>Your message here</marquee>

n=#1-50 (I suggest 3-7)

Raven_Writer · February 6, 2003, 9:27pm

marquee tags don’t work on all browsers (example: CompuServe, and probably Netscape 7). I’d suggest using DHTML or Java. ASP, Perl, PHP, and other server-side scripting works even better.

evulish · February 6, 2003, 11:57pm

I don’t think any server-side programs would do that.

jonathan_lall · February 7, 2003, 12:05am

*Originally posted by Raven_Writer *
**marquee tags don’t work on all browsers (example: CompuServe, and probably Netscape 7). I’d suggest using DHTML or Java. ASP, Perl, PHP, and other server-side scripting works even better. **

It should work in Netscape 7, in standards mode too no less.

Gadget470 · February 7, 2003, 7:38am

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Regardless of how few or how many browsers marquee works in, it’s ugly. I’ve closed many-a-pages because they didn’t appeal to me or had too much java applet’s or marquee’s. When I see a marquee, it’s only good if it could be replaced or mistaken for by a gif. (Such as scrolling |NEW| next to something). Anything further (Such as school name, sponsors, team name, etc.) is blasphemous to web design as a whole.
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Raven_Writer · February 7, 2003, 3:37pm

*Originally posted by evulish *
**I don’t think any server-side programs would do that. **

Anything is possible, just depends on if you actually want to do it.