Marquee Length

[Guest]

Is there any limit on the number of characters that can used in a scrolling
marquee?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You would want to keep the number of character low, since browsers that do not support the IE
Marquee tag will display the text as static, which could then alter your page layout.

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[Guest]

Thanks for the advice.

You would want to keep the number of character low, since browsers that do not support the IE
Marquee tag will display the text as static, which could then alter your page layout.

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[Jon Spivey]

Most browsers (not just IE) do support Marquee now. There isn't a max
length, put up what you need and you should be fine with ~95% of browsers
out there.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

A lot of the sites, I work on still have a fairly high number of version 4 and older browsers.

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[Bob Lehmann]

My limit is 0. I can't stand annoying, usually unreadable, moving and/or
blinking junk when I'm trying to read.

But then, I guess I'm not the bleeding-edge kind of guy you apparently are.

Bob Lehmann

 

[Kevin Spencer]

The easiest way to find out is to put a very long string in there and see if
it breaks. If it does, keep making it shorter until it doesn't.

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