Alternative for a marquee

[chanchelkumar]

Hi all

Actually am working with a image slider.. in which image move in a marquee..

like

[move]Image1, image 2[/move]

 

all are dynamically..

and i tried to validate using W3 .. it shows me error on marquee.. is there any alternative for marquee...

 

Thanks in advance...

 

 

 

 

[MasterACE14]

this isn't really a PHP question. However, this can be better accomplished using javascript. Checkout www.javascriptkit.com, they have marquee scripts there to 'copy and paste'

 

Regards ACE

[chanchelkumar]

But that is also marquee .. the marquee tag is not validate in W3 Validator

I want the marquee effect with out using marquee .. 

[MasterACE14]

I don't think it can be done lol. Marquee's are something the validator frowns on.

[Siggles]

What about Flash?

 

Brrer! - Montgomery Burns type shiver

[chanchelkumar]

But i want that images from the database... that is dynamically.. am not much familiar with FLASH

[haku]

There isn't a W3C compliant substitute for marquee. (X)HTML is supposed to be for content, and marquee isn't content - it's function (or presentation depending on your stance), which is why it's invalid.

[MasterACE14]

fair enough

[chanchelkumar]

Error  Line 177, Column 15: there is no attribute "class".

 

<marquee class="newstyle">

 

Line 177, Column 25: element "marquee" undefined.

 

<marquee class="newstyle">

 

 

This is the two errors am getting through the validator

[phpzone]

You can use marquee if you wish, however to get it to work through the validator you would have to

dynamically add the marquee with javascript:

 

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.onload = function()
{

marquee = document.createElement('div');
marquee.setAttribute('id', 'mymarquee');
marquee.innerHTML = '  <!-- INSERT YOUR MARQUEE MARKUP IN HERE -->';
document.getElementById('marquee-placeholder').appendChild( marquee );


}
//-->
</script>

 

Put some code <div id="marquee-placeholder"><!-- // marquee --></div> in your page and the above code would add a child to this

with the marquee content.

 

Using this type of method you can get code to validate right up to XHTML 1.0 (possible 1.1)

[haku]

Which makes sense - javascript provides action for the page, and marquee can be thought of as an action.

[chanchelkumar]

Thanks phpzone!!

 

But the code doesn't works as the marquee...

 

 

[ToonMariner]

christ - just mark your stuff as normal - this looks like a nice straight forward unordered list of images floated left so when javascript is off they display nicely...

 

then use JAVSCRIPT to fix the height of the unordered list and hide the overflow and then assign popsitions to each li which it will move either in a loop or better still a timed action...

 

content = markup, design/presentation = css, document effects (all the 'cool stuff') = javascript NOT proprietary markup that only works in IE - you'll be wantiong to use 'blink' next.