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Adding scrolling marquees


The Marquee feature is an HTML element that lets you place a scrolling message on your Web page. You select the scrolling behavior in the Marquee Inspector.

Note: The Scrolling Marquee feature is an Internet Explorer extension that does not work in Netscape. Preview the scrolling marquee in Adobe GoLive or in your Internet Explorer browser to make sure that it behaves as desired.

To set up a scrolling marquee:

1 Drag the Marquee icon from the Basic tab () of the Objects palette to the document window, or double-click the icon in the Objects palette.

2 In the Marquee Inspector, type the desired text message for the marquee the Text box.

If you want to control the font and style of the marquee text on a layout grid, place the marquee in a layout text box.

3 Choose an option from the Behavior pop-up menu:
  • Scroll to cause the message to scroll continuously.
  • Slide to move the message into the marquee box and to keep it on-screen.
  • Alternate to move the message into the marquee box and to bounce it between the edges.

    • 4 To determine how long the marquee is visible, do one of the following:
  • Select Forever to make the message scroll continuously.
  • Enter a required number of repetitions in the Loops text box.

    • 5 Enter the desired scrolling speed in the Amount text box (the scrolling speed is measured in pixels between each scrolling amount in milliseconds).

    6 Enter the scrolling delay in the Delay text box.

    7 Select Left or Right to determine the scrolling direction.

    8 Click the More tab. Enter a value (in pixels or as a percentage) for the marquee in the Width and Height text boxes.

    9 Enter a value in the HSpace text box to set the horizontal space around the marquee's text (the padding to the left and right). Enter a value in the VSpace text box to set the vertical space around the text (padding above and below).

    10 Choose an alignment for the banner from the Alignment pop-up menu.

    11 To assign a background color to the scrolling marquee, drag a color from the Color palette or Colors tab of the site window to the Color field.

    Adding Interactivity > Adding scrolling marquees