Cross Browser marquee - no lead-in please?

[Talvenloppu]

Cross Browser marquee

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/cmarquee.htm

I want to get the marquee to begin with a "box/marquee" of text rather than an empty "box/marquee". I've tried playing with the code ... :/ (not having a clue, just guesswork and trial and error!!) And although I can get it to do what I want in FF3 (by deleting (marqueewidth) from the populate function) the ticker text then vanishes completely in IE7 !!!! B****y Mr Gates LoL

Is it possible??

Robin

[molendijk]

Replace

function populate(){
if (iedom){
cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarquee
cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"
cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontent
actualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth
}
else if (document.layers){
ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2
ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8
ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)
ns_marquee.document.close()
actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width
}
lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)
}
window.onload=populate

with

function populate(){
if (iedom){
cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarquee
//cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"
cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontent
actualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth
}
else if (document.layers){
ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2
//ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8
ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)
ns_marquee.document.close()
actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width
}
lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)
}
window.onload=populate

.
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Arie Molendijk

[Talvenloppu]

Unbelievable!! Amazing!!! Thanks ... (I'd shove in more smilies in but they don't seem to work!) )) Thank you very much indeed

Robin

[Talvenloppu]

Oops Arie ..... it works great but it only removes the trailing space at the beginning of the ticker.

When the ticker starts there is no blank space, but when it ends there is. I want to get a continuous loop of text without it either trailing away at the end or trailing on at the beginning.

[jscheuer1]

Use this one:

http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/side/marqueeh.htm

It is continuous, and has as a configuration option:

//Specify start with Full(1)or Empty(0) Marquee
var full=0

Set that to 1. For the full source code, use your browser's 'view source' to get the code.

[Talvenloppu]

Thanks! Works a treat

[saturnprods]

Use this one:

http://home.comcast.net/~jscheuer1/side/marqueeh.htm

It is continuous, and has as a configuration option:

//Specify start with Full(1)or Empty(0) Marquee
var full=0

Set that to 1. For the full source code, use your browser's 'view source' to get the code.

Hi jscheuer1,

This works great. The only thing is I have noticed that in IE, it takes about 8 seconds to start up. In Safari it starts up instantly.

Do you know why this is?

Thanks

[Talvenloppu]

Just to say that I don't experience that lag in IE7 - I have the delay set to 3 seconds and that's exactly the time taken for the next image to show.