Marquee text scroll

[unplugged_web]

I wonder if anybody can help me please. I want to use <MARQUEE>, but want it to alternate the text it scrolls. Some text comes from a database other text is just plain text. But other than just putting the text in myself and then adding spaces is there anyway I can get it to display different sentences randomly.For example I'm currently using:

<marquee width="570px" loop="50" direction="left" scrollamount="4" onMouseOut="this.start()" onMouseOver="this.stop()" bgcolor="#000000"><?php echo $row['news']  ?>     Get your latest news     Breaking news     Archive news</marquee>

But in an idea world I'll like to randomly display the text.Thanks

[thescientist]

you would probably need some sort of Javascript function to randomly pick text, maybe with setInterval, you have pre-determined, and then maybe use it conjunction with AJAX to "refresh" the page so the text changes based on what the javascript function has "picked"?

Edited April 8, 2010 by thescientist

[ShadowMage]

Isn't <marquee> deprecated?

[thescientist]

if only that mattered...still doesn't stop the kiddies from trying to use them

[Ingolme]

Isn't <marquee> deprecated?

No, it's not deprecated. An element can only have been deprecated if it was a standard to begin with. <marquee> was never even a web standard.

[unplugged_web]

you would probably need some sort of Javascript function to randomly pick text, maybe with setInterval, you have pre-determined, and then maybe use it conjunction with AJAX to "refresh" the page so the text changes based on what the javascript function has "picked"?

Thanks, I'll give that a go.

[ShadowMage]

No, it's not deprecated. An element can only have been deprecated if it was a standard to begin with. <marquee> was never even a web standard.

Oh.

[amj]

There are numerous JavaScript alternatives available on the web to replace <MARQUEE> that will work in most of the browsers that don't support it.If the text is in a db then you might be better coding the main part of the page with ASP or some other language (depending upon what is supported by your Internet Server),