HTML code - Text Controlling Tags Part 2

[ben2ong2]

I must confess, I never wanted to write this section. I thought it would be more appropriate to include it in the Tips and Tricks section. Okay, here it is...


<MARQUEE> and <BLINK> are two browser specific tags. These tags are displayed only by some browsers and ignored by the others.

<BLINK>: Netscape Communicator
<MARQUEE>: Internet Explorer
The <BLINK>
This tag is rendered ONLY by Netscape. There have been many a things said about this tag (most of them unpleasant). I feel it provides cheap thrills to a novice. Also, IE ignores this tag. So if you are using Internet Explorer you wouldn't see the blinking text below.

  Blink Blink



<MARQUEE>
The <MARQUEE> tag provides some animated text to the page. Unfortunately, it is supported only by Internet Explorer (and WebTV). It provides an easy way to put some dynamic text in otherwise static pages (scripting languages are another story).



An easy way to put some colorful animated text on your page.


It has many attributes:

BEHAVIOUR = ALTERNATE, SCROLL OR SLIDE
BGCOLOR = #RRGGBB (The RGB code, explained in the color session) or Color-Name such as "Blue", "Green" etc.
DIRECTION = DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT OR UP
HEIGHT = in pixels or percentage
HSPACE = in pixels (the amount of horizontal space left)
LOOP = number or INFINITE
SCROLLAMOUNT = in pixels
SCROLLDELAY = in milliseconds
TITLE = some advisory text
TRANSPARENCY = 0 to 100 (number)
VSPACE = in pixels (amount of vertical space left)
WIDTH = in pixels or percentage
and the CLASS, ID and STYLE attributes if you use style sheets
I like this marquee tag, its easy, cool and gives great results. Pity it's not supported by Netscape version 4.xx.