I've got a scrolling marquee on my website that also contains a link. The marquee itself is recognized by all browsers and so is the link. But Apple Safari and Google Chrome will not alternate. The text goes all the way to the left and just stays there. Here is the code:
/span>
<marquee behavior="alternate" direction="left"
bgcolor="#99FFFF" scrollamount="4"
onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()()"><font
color="#ff9900" size="+2"><a
href="http://www.crlwc.com/picnic.html">Celebrate
Recovery is having a picnic! Click here for details</a></font></marquee>
I tried to remove the direction left part but it had no effect on getting the text to move. I'm new at HTML and most of this kind of techy stuff I get by Google. I've learned what it means more or less and I can manipulate things to get them to do what I want. Just not with this. I've tried everything. Juggling with the wording, adding commands and stuff but to no avail. Suggestions?
I recommend that you get rid of the marquee. It just distracts from the other content on the page, and makes the content in the marquee itself harder to read. Adding a link to the marquee just makes it worse. Not everyone has perfect hand-eye coordination.
That other browser than IE has started to support MARQUEE doesn't mean they necessarily support all features of it.
Yeah, yeah. It boils down to that MARQUEE is non standard and so are the implementations of it. Other browsers mysteriously added support for MARQUEE when people basically had stopped to use it already, so they probably didn't go all the way and never will.
Or use javascript (works in Safari/Mac): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/cmarquee.htm .
Of course, javascript has to be enabled in the user's browser.
Sure, use it all you want. I'm just telling you WHY things are as they are.
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