Displays scrolling text in the staus bar of your browser.
See status bar or hit 'reload'.
<!-- JavaScript -->
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
// the string that should scroll
var scrlStr = "Scrolling Text"
// the width of the scrolling area
var width = 120;
var strLen = scrlStr.length;
var pos = 1 - width; // start far enough to the left for only
// one letter to be showing
function scroll(){
var scroll = ""; // initialize the string to be printed
pos++; // move to the right in the string
if (pos == strLen) // start over if the string is done
pos = 1 - width; // scrolling
if (pos<0) { // add spaces to beginning if necessary
for (var i=1; i<=Math.abs(pos); i++)
scroll = scroll + " ";
scroll = scroll + scrlStr.substring(0, width - i + 1);
}
else
scroll = scroll + scrlStr.substring(pos, pos + width);
window.status = scroll; // print the string
setTimeout("scroll()",100); // recurse after 1/10 of a second
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<body ONLOAD="scroll(); return true">
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