creating a ticker

h · Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 9

Hi everyone,

Im a new html coder and was interested in the capabilities of html.

Im looking to set up a ticker style frontpage for my site.

Basically the options for readers would dart across the screen like a news ticker. I.e home, about us etc.

I have seen sites with this but have no clue how to do it.

If its a flash thing let me know or if you have any advice that would be great

Thank you

chrisxkelley · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 246

there are a large number of ways to achieve the effect you are looking for. one would be flash, if you are looking for a complex, eye-candyish way do create your menu, but if not, i think you can use the marquee tag with links inside that... try this

h · Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 9

Thanks very much, that was the start i needed.

If you want a gmail account let me know as that was of great help to me.

How can i find out about other behviours such as marquee? it would be quite helpful if i could learn this myself!

Cheers

Corey Bryant · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:19 pm

Actually the marquee tag was made by Microsoft. It is not really an HTML tag. You might also consider JavaScript as well to do something - take a look at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/