Scrolling marquee

[mollyredmare]

I am trying to help a friend with her cam page and her admin page does not really explain how to do the srcolling marquee that many sites have above or below the video feed. I figure it is probably something to do with the html box, but not sure. Can someone explain it?

Thanks,

Molly

[rich]

There are two types of scrolling marquees. One is accomplished with the <marquee> tag which sets up a horizontal scrolling banner. Here is a page that will help you:

www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_marquee_code.cfm

NOTE that the marquee tag is an Internet Explorer extension to HTML and not all browsers support it.

The scrolling window that many cam pages here feature is done with an <iframe> tag. Right click on one and select "View source" to see how it is constructed. What it does is call another page that has the scrolling information on it. That page also contains javascript code that makes the text scroll through the window. The iframe tag on the cam page contains a link to this second page. Load that one and look at the source code, and you will see the javascript scrolling program.