Sunday, March 16, 2008

How do I… Use Flash animation to duplicate the marquee tag effect?

Most Web designers and developers are glad that the marquee tag is dead and buried. However, if you have a boss or a client that is insistent upon using the marquee tag in a Web site, you do have an option that allows for a lot more control in the looks and functionality of a line of scrolling text. CSS can’t help us here unless you incorporate a rather knotty chunk of JavaScript, so I’ll show you how to create the marquee tag effect using animation and a few lines of ActionScript in Flash CS3.

The marquee tag is one of the more infamous HTML tags. It was a tag that was never fully supported by the W3C. As the name implies, text enclosed by the marquee tag scrolled from right to left when displayed in a Web browser. It was only supported by earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and was incompatible with Netscape. However, IE7 will still display the tag, as will recent versions of Firefox and Safari.

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