1  <HTML>
  2  <HEAD>
  3  <TITLE>JavaScript Example: Scrolling text</TITLE>
  4  
  5  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  6  <!-- hide script from old browsers
  7  
  8  var text = "Welcome to the Short Course on Web Technologies!";
  9  var len = text.length;
 10  var width = 125;
 11  var pos = 1 - width;
 12  
 13  function scrollText() {
 14    pos++;
 15    var scroller = "";
 16    if ( pos == len ) {
 17      pos = 1 - width;
 18    }
 19    if ( pos < 0 ) {
 20      for ( var i = 1; i <= Math.abs(pos); i++ ) {
 21        scroller += " ";
 22      }
 23      scroller += text.substring(0,width-i+1);
 24    } else {
 25      scroller += text.substring(pos,width+pos);
 26    }
 27    window.status = scroller;
 28    window.setTimeout("scrollText()", 150);  // 150 millisecs = .15 secs
 29  }
 30    
 31  // end script hiding -->
 32  </SCRIPT>
 33  
 34  </HEAD>
 35  
 36  <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" onLoad="scrollText(); return true;">
 37  
 38  Look at the status line of this window!!!
 39  
 40  </BODY>
 41  </HTML>