Scrolling text - still

**jeb** · 19 January 2012, 07:51 PM

I have again searched for how to do scrolling text on a Xara site - last time, months back, I gave up and there has been little added since then.

There has to be some way of doing this - I mean, it isn't like I am the only one in the world that wants this on a site.

I tried using animation but am not happy with the results.

The best solution seems to be using the "marquee" methoid but all of them I have looked at gives very jerkie text at best.

Isn't there some way of doing this? - jb

**doniggy** · 19 January 2012, 11:12 PM

have u tried to fine some html code for this and then to put in body? i used this with some clocks, i made site with analog clock on it so i just add htlm code.

**doniggy** · 19 January 2012, 11:15 PM

i found this, so try it if u like http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_marquee_code.cfm

**Big Frank** · 20 January 2012, 01:17 AM

All done within Xara Designer in a couple of minutes. Just about everything, speed, colour, size, transformation, is configurable.

**doniggy** · 20 January 2012, 01:39 AM

i want to put this scrolling text in postion i wish (shown in this picture - red rectangle )

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can u help with htlm code i need to add in Xara? code for scrolling text is

<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left">Your scrolling text goes here</marquee>

just type the whole code i need to paste, many thanks

**doniggy** · 20 January 2012, 01:53 AM

can u put here some of this *.xar files u made this scrolling text?

**doniggy** · 20 January 2012, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by beretgascon

All done within Xara Designer in a couple of minutes. Just about everything, speed, colour, size, transformation, is configurable.

can u put here some of this *.xar files u made this scrolling text?

**jeb** · 20 January 2012, 03:22 AM

David, tks for the files but what you have supplied is the same problems I have had trying to do scrolling text - the text is very jerky and goes all the way across the screen.

I want to put it in a rectangle and smooth it out. Also, I didn't see a way using animation to change color, fonts, etc. but will take a look again tomorrow.

Again, tks for the help - jb

**Big Frank** · 20 January 2012, 07:36 AM

@doniggy: these are all flash animations, but if you want to use MARQUEE, I did a tutorial on how to do that here:

http://xaradesigner.co.uk/marquee/

@jeb: the jerkiness of the flash file is dependent on the speed of the animation (the frame rate) and, to a certain extent, the power of your monitor/graphics card. The animations I just did are a fixed width (as with the MARQUEE tutorial), they do not go the whole width, they go the exact width that I designed them at, which was 752 pixels. Here I've put it on a background to demonstrate that:

Here is the XAR file: scrolling_text.xar

@everybody: my name is not David Hockney, it's Frank

**jeb** · 20 January 2012, 07:58 PM

Sorry about that. Frank.

And tks for the help but I have over 30 names I wanted to scroll so it was going to take many, many frames to make it work so I went with having them pop up instead still using the animation.

But for some reason, when I made the placeholder it caused my text to shift on the page slightly when previewed. It looks fine on the working page but to get the right edge of the text back where it was I have to re-size it to make it overlay the photos I have down the right side of the page. This is only on the page with the new placeholder. Have not uploaded the site yet so will wait and see if it shows up in realtime. - jb