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How to use JavaScript to insert a marquee that works in most browsers

1. Open the page (or create a page) in FrontPage Editor where you want the marque.
2. Position your cursor where you want to place the tags.
3. Click on Insert, HTML Markup.
4. Paste the following code within the HTML Markup:

<script language="javascript">
<!-- Ticker Tape in Java Script .. Cameron Gregory cameron@bloke.com
// http://www.bloke.com/
// http://www.bloke.com/javascript/TickerTape/
var tickertapeform
speed=100
len=75
space=" "
tid = 0;
message="TickerTape in JavaScript .. by Cameron Gregory .. cameron@corona.att.com .. visit my home page at http://www.att.com/homes/cameron/ or http://www.cs.jcu.edu.au/~cameron/"
c= -len;

function move() {
cend=Math.min(c+len,message.length)
if (c <0)
cstart=0
else
cstart=c
if (c < 0)
f.scroll.value=space.substring(0,-c) + message.substring(cstart,cend)
else
f.scroll.value=message.substring(cstart,cend)
c = c +1;
if (c == message.length ) c = -len;
tid=window.setTimeout("move()",speed);
}

function start(x) {
f=x
tid=window.setTimeout("move()",speed);
}

function cleartid() {
window.clearTimeout(tid);
}

// for some reason on some pages this crashes netscape
function ticker(m,l,s)
{
message=m
len=l
speed=s
document.write('<FORM name=tickertapeform><input name=scroll size=')
document.write(len)
document.write(' value=""></FORM>')
start(document.tickertapeform);
}

// for some reason on some pages this crashes netscape
function ticker(m)
{
message=m
len=75
speed=100
document.write('<FORM name=tickertapeform><input name=scroll size=75></FORM>');
start(document.tickertapeform);
}

// end-->
</script>

5. Click on OK.

Peter Abraham