Hi
Is it now possible to insert scrolling text in Xara webpages without having to resort to HTML?
Thanks in advance
E
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Hi
Is it now possible to insert scrolling text in Xara webpages without having to resort to HTML?
Thanks in advance
E
Epyminia, welcome to TalkGraphics.
The HTML <marquee> Tag is deprecated in HTML5 as it was often buggy.
This CSS solution is directly applied to a Xara Text Column or Area without any need to use Placeholders, so avoiding HTML.
The CSS could be put into a placeholder for easy use across different designs.
Attachment 133917
You can change the speed (10s == 10 seconds) and the direction as well as the width and position of the text.
You can also include shapes with a Name htmlclass="Marquee".
Acorn
Hi Acorn, many thanks for your speedy reply.
Unfortunately it is not quite what I am hoping for. I want to place a lengthy descriptive text article on a page and enable the viewer to scroll through it at their own pace, perhaps even going backwards if necessary.
Very amusing to see your text scrolling sideways and I will certainly have a play with it when the pressure eases.
Cheers
E
E, try this: Attachment 133921
Here is a rework of my first that doesn't scroll "sideways": Attachment 133920.
If you hover, it stops.
Acorn
Or as a simpler method. just using a placeholder to load another html page.
DEMO
Thanks chaps,
There is obviously more to Xara than meets the I
In this particular case I think that the Egg solution is closer to my requirements.
But I'll doodle with both...
E
Egg, your solution suits me fine.... although there is still one fly in the ointment!
Your Demo works just great, however when I try, the vertical scrolling is good but I always have an unwanted horizontal slider bar at the bottom of the text.
Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong or not doing right?
E
Reduce the width of the webpage that's loaded by the placeholder Epyminia.
One other advantage of this method is that if you publish this page to a sub-directory you only need to republish that single page, not the complete site.