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confused how to control marquee tag?
Hi there,

I know fully how to use the html marquee tag, but when i put something in for it to scroll to the left, the text sentence scrolls to the left, but then there is a gap (like a pause) then it loops again.

Is there any way to not include this blankgap to it is continuously scrolling like a conveyor belt?
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
It should start the next scroll as soon as the previous text has scrolled off the screen. If not, I suggest that you repeat the text inside the marquee tag with a few spaces in between, like:-

Text in marquee tag   Text in marquee tag   Text in marquee tag   

which should show the text snippets following each other.

(You may get advice from others not to use the marquee tag; they don't like it and it doesn't validate".
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
(You may get advice from others not to use the marquee tag; they don't like it and it doesn't validate".
Here's some advice, Kiran: Don't use it! It's annoying, hard to read, and it's only supported in IE (not sure if all versions or just the older ones).

And it doesn't validate.
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
There is no Marquee tag.

(fill in with "yes there is...")

No there isn't. You will not find it in the specs of HTML which means it does not exist (hence it does not validate). It is a tag M$ thought up and tried to make a standard and it failed (though not quite as badly as Netscape's "Blink" tag.)

It was only supported in IE, at some point Mozilla began supporting it.

But truth told

  • It is not HTML.

  • It does not validate.

  • Not all browsers and other user agents support it, so you will have truncated text (It will not scroll and you will only see partial text).

  • It is found by most users to be irritating.

  • It is problematic for those with disabilities such as poor eyesight and things such has attention deficet, Dyslexia and other cognitive disorders who will find it drawing their attention away from the content they wish to read and they came to the site for.

  • People all read at different speeds, so 80% of users will find it to slow or to fast to read comfortably.

  • The user has not control over it. We build sites for the user, so the user needs to control how they read the content.

  • Never set an automatic scroll. If you must use such gimicks, use JavaScript scroller scripts that allow the user to slow/increase the speed as needed. Or use a DIV with a set size and set the overflow to auto so that they can scroll at their own speed.

  • Beware of using gimicks. It is about building for the needs of the user ad if a gimick will make content difficult to use/read... then it fails.
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
Just to add to the debate, there used to be a DoS (denial of service) bug "caused by improper handling of specially-crafted HTML marquee tags" that affected Numerous browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera!
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
That one is new to me. Interesting...
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
thnx to all
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
add the marquee tag as literal control in page load function
Literal marquee =
new Literal ();
marquee.Text =''<marquee>MyText</marquee>'';
this.Controls.Add(marquee) ;
----- i hope it helped u
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
Best control for the marquee tag is a CSS style that includes {display:hidden} or {display:none}
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Re: how to control marquee tag?
misuse of display hidden or display done can and will result in portions of the web site.content not being available to disabled users and should be used only with extreme caution when their use is well understood.
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