General overview of the <marquee> tag of IE
For the dazed and confused, starting in IE3, your browser supports what's called the <marquee> tag. This tag, simply put, scrolls any text you put inside of it:
<marquee>This text scrolls. This text scrolls. This text scrolls.</marquee>
Numerous enhancements have been added since to make it infinitely more attractive to use, including support for HTML content, scroll style and speed customization, and programmatic access using JavaScript. Before we officially dive in, let's first see a few example marquees that utilize these goodies. Note that IE 4+ is required at this point...
1) Marquee with rich HTML content:
2) up-down scroll marquee with CSS formatting:
2) Scroller that pauses/ resumes when the mouse is over/out:
A little different from the marquee you're familiar with, most likely.
- Tutorial introduction
- General overview of the <marquee> tag of IE
- The new attributes, events, and methods
- Scripting the <marquee>