Marquee text in HTML Email

[Guest]

My client wants scrolling text in a HTML email newsletter.

For some reason, the <marquee> ... </marquee> HTML element doesn't appear to
work in Outlook 2007 - rather than scrolling text, the entire text is
displayed at once on multiple lines. The same code works in older versions of
Outlook and other mail readers.

Has the syntax changed, or is this element no longer supported by Outlook?

example:

<marquee scrollamount="5">
<span style="color:#EBEBEB;">Scroll text here</span>
</marquee>

 

[BillR]

It has changed in that Outlook 2007 now uses a stub of Word 2007 for email.
YOu can't jsut use "Outlook only" as the editor. Some added function is
supported if Word 2007 is also installed. I don't think Marquee is now
supported but the Word guys might know for sure.

 

[Guest]

OK thanks. I've actually been looking for an argument to convince them to
drop the marquee because I hate them with a vengence, so maybe this is as
good as any. Cheers.