I've noticed that marquee isn't compatible in xhtml (and from what I was reading, it wasn't really correct in html also). but what if I do need a marquee in my page (to scroll news on the side of the screen)? I tried looking for a javascript code that can do the same but couldn't find one. does anyone knows how can I accomplish a marquee effect?
<marquee> was nothing more than a proprietary presentational element created by Microsoft during the browser wars to help promote its browser and to compete against Netscape, which had the majority of the market share at the time. To achieve a similar effect cross browser, you will have to use JavaScript. Understand that this can cause accessibility problems, so you'll want to be very careful about how you implement it. One of the better ones to use is DOM News, from onlinetools.org http://onlinetools.org/tools/domnews/
Yes, the online tools.org has helped us providing a vertical text scroller. Helpful and thanks to the team.