Thursday, September 23, 2010

How To Make Text Scroll Across The Page Using HTML


In this tutorial we will be learning how to make text scroll on and off the page using html coding. This could be a useful tip if you want the same words to continually be running across the top of the page to catch peoples attention.

What You Will Need
For this tutorial you will need a computer, and a text edit window and the html coding that I will provide. This tutorial should only take a few minutes. However feel free to play around with different text on your website to see where this would be most useful.

Step By Step

Step 1
Open your text edit. Go to format make plain text. Next open your html by putting the (html) code in.

Step 2
Next Create a title for your page title Scrolling Tutorial title.

Step 3
Think of a line of text you would like to scroll. ex Scrolling is fun!!!

Step 4
Use this code to scroll the text. (marquee) (marquee/)

Step 5
You can make it go either direction.
(marquee direction="Scrolling is Fun!!!">Left Scroll (marquee/).
(marquee direction="Scrolling is Fun!!!">Right Scroll (marquee/).

Step 6
HAVE FUN WITH IT!

Link to Youtube Video of how to do this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsa3OjMUIDk

Conclusion
There are a lot of different and fun things you can do with coding. So get out there and see what others are doing.

Special Thanks To
dtisawesome9614 for making the youtube video!

He has also made several other tutorials for html.

Also please recognized that where ever you see (or) it is suppose to be . Thank you.



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