Scrolling text on email

TJH_2

Afternoon folks,
Can anyone please tell me if there is an easy way to get my text to scroll on the screen on an email,(hotmail) going barmy trying to find answers on google.Thanks

vyseyboy

<marquee>Your text here</marquee>

You need to make sure you're sending the email in Rich Formatted / HTML format. No idea how to do this myself.

Also, not everyone recieves HTML emails properly, and quite a few people choose to avoid them deliberately. Something to keep in mind.

EDIT: having just tried it myself, it's not working. The <marquee> tag is definately how you do scrolling text in HTML though. Maybe it's just not possible / forbidden in email.

TJH_2

Hi, thanks for your reply, I think its more trouble than its worth, I was trying to show off a bit to my mum!

M4RKM

the <marquee> tag was depreciated years ago and i've never known a rich text e-mail reader to understand it, even when it was a part of the HTML language!

Hazzanet

I'm probably alone in thinking that scrolling text/marquees in e-mails are bad "netiquette": There's no guarantee that the recipient's mail reader can read the script that would be required to do this, or even if it can read HTML (i.e. those using PINE for example).

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I still use plain text.

vyseyboy

Hazzanet wrote: »

I'm probably alone in thinking that scrolling text/marquees in e-mails are bad "netiquette": There's no guarantee that the recipient's mail reader can read the script that would be required to do this, or even if it can read HTML (i.e. those using PINE for example).

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I still use plain text.

No, you're right, that's definately the case, and I think most people would agree!

marquee is horrible, but it still works on any of the big html browsers.