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I'll never validate with a marquee??

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by fryman, Apr 25, 2005.

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    I have a marquee on a site I am building, I went to validate it, and I get errors due to the marquee. I have been reading several articles, and it seems that there is no way for a page to validate if it has a marquee. is this right?

    I am so frustrated, this is the first page in my life that I was actually trying to keep clean and have it validate, and I get stuck with this. The marquee is very necesary for the design I'm using :(
     
    fryman, Apr 25, 2005 IP
  2. Corey Bryant

    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    You could try a JS method, but the <marquee> was added by MS & never caught on. Just like those <blink> tags
     
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  3. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    #3
    What are the tag's you're using FryMan?
     
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  4. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    I have no idea about webdesign, that is why I am putting this page as my goal, if I make it validate I will just be so happy...

    Could you point me to some article that explains that JS stuff you are talking about?

    Normal tags, the validator gets stuck as soon as it sees the <marquee> tag
     
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  5. running

    running Peon

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    fryman, post the url where the problem is so we can see if there is a solution
     
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  6. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    What DocType are you using?

    It shouldn't be an issue with XHTML transitional (I don't think).
     
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  7. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    HTML 4.01 Transitional

    Don't want to post the url until I make this thing validate ;)

    But this is the code I am using (a marquee with a background image)

    And validator send this:

     
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  8. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    In that case, try this (I don't know if it'll work or not)...

    <MARQUEE SCROLLDELAY="50" STYLE="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 2mm; color:#FFFFD4" BACKGROUND="#ref here">Blah</MARQUEE>

    I realy don't know if it'll work...

    Personally, I'd change the DocType and see if that makes a difference.
     
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  9. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    Everything else on my page validates, so the doc type seems correct. I am browsing around some pages, but it seems that the marquess tag is not accepted by w3, so I am trying to find anything similar
     
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    SEbasic Peon

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    Can't help you there I'm afraid...

    I'd go with a JS option though if it's a real issue.
     
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  11. Corey Bryant

    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    <marquee> is a proprietary tag & W3 will not validate it. MS created the tag for IE & Netscape did adopt it. You can read some here Marquee tag
     
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  12. Corey Bryant

    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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  13. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    #13
    Fryman, I think javabotique has a variety of javascript scrollers that give same apperance as marquee. Even if you use marquee, text will not scroll on Netscape, or at least did not in the past. I can not keep up with what works or does not work on all the browsers.

    Due to problems with javascript and machines running IE on high security, javascript scrollers are not such a great idea either.

    The bottom line is best bet may be to get rid of idea of scroller. Sorry to say it. I too am faced with changing a site to get rid of my javascript hover button. Boo hiss regaring these types of issues.

    Best of luck.

    Shannon
     
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  14. running

    running Peon

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    #14
    well this way it validates well:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    document.write('<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" >');
    document.write('<marquee scrolldelay="50" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 2mm; color:#FFFFD4">');
    document.write('TEXT CONTENT OF MY MARQUEE');
    document.write('<\/marquee>');
    document.write('<\/td><\/tr><\/table>');
    </script>

    here is the validated url:

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.altayposicionamiento.com%2Fprueba.htm&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29

    think this will help, sorry my english
     
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  15. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    Cool... I haven't slept in 20 hours, I need to go rest a while and I'll check it out when I wake up.

    Thanks!
     
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  16. Solicitors Mortgages

    Solicitors Mortgages Well-Known Member

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    #16
    thats right Fryman, if someone is running a 'tight P.C'..... they won't even see your javascript marquee, wouldnt say that was too high a percentage....but its enough.

    so you get to choose... validate or see the marquee
     
    Solicitors Mortgages, Apr 25, 2005 IP