How can I get the Marquee in IE to display an external text file?

Cadwalader · Jul 31, 2002

What I am trying to accomplish is to display a small text file in the Marquee in IE...something like news, or notifications, etc., without having to upload the whole web page to the server everyday, just that small text file. I tried the datasrc, datafield, and dataformats and it didn't work. I know that it would work if I had some kind of database, but writing a text file is much easier. Can it work? and how?

Thanks in advance...

jlsmithhartfiel · Jul 31, 2002

Try this...

Code:

<html>
<body>
<marquee behavior=slide direction=left width=250>
<script src=&quot;include.js&quot;></script>
</marquee>
</body>
</html>

where include.js contains:

Code:

document.writeln('<A HREF=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com&quot;[/URL]  TITLE=&quot;HTML forum at Tek-Tips.com.&quot;>Visit the HTML forum</A>');

Hope this helps,
Jessica [ponytails2]

Cadwalader · Jul 31, 2002

Thanks! That's going to work just fine.

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How can I get the Marquee in IE to display an external text file?

Cadwalader

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jlsmithhartfiel

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Cadwalader

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