Heres a really stupid question

[Brianna]

OK, I have a really stupid question, an I'm probably going to kick myself once some one can answer this, but I'm going to ask it any way..... I know the various ways to make scrolling text using java, either in the bottom status bar or in a self contained box on a web page. Heres the actual question, my boyfriend goes to this site where theres profiles, you fill in different text fields with your info, but apparently someone figured out how to add a java script in this field so that when people view your profile theres scrolling text. How the heck can I do that?? Hes been bugging me to figure it out an I'm sure the answer is very simple an I'm just overlooking it. When I try it the only thing that happens is you see the stupid text for the java code, what portion of the java code am I forgetting to put in so it sees the code as code instead of just text?????

(or even better does any one know a short code to one up the scrolling like making the text fade in an out instead or something ????) Thank you in advance;)

[PeOfEo]

does the text scroll as if on a marquee, because you could just use the marquee flag.
<MARQUEE WIDTH="XXX" height="xxx" scrollrate="1" scrolldirection"up"><span style="font stuff">Text</span></marquee>
But the marquee, from what I have seen is not even defined by the w3c. I do not believe it is invalid from what I have seen but it is not reccommended.

[Brianna]

thank you. it was a mrquee script only when I put in any extra variables it gave me errors. I knew I was making too much out of it. I didn't need to add the height or width and so on

I really appreciate your help thanks!

[PeOfEo]

no prob.