Text moving (looping text)

hey guys/gals

I'm looking for text to move to the side or up and down. Example (http://www.bnn.ca/) you see BBN (title on the site) below it is a black strip and below is a text loop. thats what i want to do. any sites you can recommend for that? anyone know how to do that or know any premade scripts for that in jquery or javascrip?

Rather funny this functionality has been part of the basic HTML markup (<marquee> tag) and supported by browsers forever but apparently we can't do it without jQuery now :p

Google "jquery marquee" for lots of options.

Thanks!!!

The marquee is now deprecated by the w3c.

:-(, so does that mean i cant use that? any other alternatives?

You can use jQuery if you like but imo it is overkill for a simple task like scrolling text. You can do it with just a few lines of javascript by setting a setInterval to continually remove the 1st char off a string of text and push it to the end of the string. Or you can use css positioning to scroll a string across a div continually.

Just google something like "scrolling text javascript" and you'll get lots of examples.

how do i do it the css way? wouldnt it be faster doing it with css? better load time too no?