1. To get the scrolling effect, just sandwich what you want to scroll between <marquee> and </marquee> 2. For the colors, <font color="red"> and </font> 3. For the big character size <font size=+2> 4. For the funky font type <font face="comic sans ms"> 5. Add extra spaces between words with  
The font commands can be chained together like this:
<font color="red" size=+3 face="comic sans ms"> And you can change any of the font things without changing the others by just doing a <font whatever="whatever"></font> with the text in the middle. So putting it all together, the code looked like this:
The font face depends on whether the user's machine has that typeface, and "comic sans ms" is usually only on Windows PCs. Some of the names which are more universal are:
Helvetica (it means "Swiss" - the original designer of sans-serif fonts for newspapers was a Swissman named Max Miedinger). Dutch aka Times, is the original font of the NY Times, and got its nickname because the original editor of the NY Times was Dutch. Script is just what it sounds like
The reason for the Helvetica & Dutch nicknames is because of an old Supreme Court ruling which said that an alphabet cannot be copyrighted, it's in the public domain, but the name of a font can be trademarked. So anyone can freely copy the style of Times Roman but they need to come up with an original name for it.
I know, TMI.
Anyhow, if I made the code say this:
<marquee> <font color="red" size=+3 face="Times" > Squee!!!      <font color="blue" face="helvetica" size=+1 > Squee!!! </font>      <font color="green" face="script" > Squee!!! </font> </marquee> Then it will look like this:
Squee!!! Squee!!! Squee!!!
Or you can just stick to the basic barebones marquee:
<marquee> Your text here <marquee>
Thusly:
Simon Tam is a wuss and when his sister isn't looking he sneaks into the shuttle and puts on Inara's belly dance costumes
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Date: 2005-08-03 10:07 pm (UTC)1. To get the scrolling effect, just sandwich what you want to scroll between <marquee> and </marquee>
2. For the colors, <font color="red"> and </font>
3. For the big character size <font size=+2>
4. For the funky font type <font face="comic sans ms">
5. Add extra spaces between words with  
The font commands can be chained together like this:
<font color="red" size=+3 face="comic sans ms">
And you can change any of the font things without changing the others by just doing a <font whatever="whatever"></font> with the text in the middle. So putting it all together, the code looked like this:
<marquee> <font color="red" size=+3 face="comic sans ms"> Squee!!!      <font color="blue"> Squee!!! </font>      <font color="blue"> </font> <font color="green"> Squee!!! </font> </marquee>
The font face depends on whether the user's machine has that typeface, and "comic sans ms" is usually only on Windows PCs. Some of the names which are more universal are:
Helvetica (it means "Swiss" - the original designer of sans-serif fonts for newspapers was a Swissman named Max Miedinger).
Dutch aka Times, is the original font of the NY Times, and got its nickname because the original editor of the NY Times was Dutch.
Script is just what it sounds like
The reason for the Helvetica & Dutch nicknames is because of an old Supreme Court ruling which said that an alphabet cannot be copyrighted, it's in the public domain, but the name of a font can be trademarked. So anyone can freely copy the style of Times Roman but they need to come up with an original name for it.
I know, TMI.
Anyhow, if I made the code say this:
<marquee> <font color="red" size=+3 face="Times" > Squee!!!      <font color="blue" face="helvetica" size=+1 > Squee!!! </font>      <font color="green" face="script" > Squee!!! </font> </marquee>
Then it will look like this:
Squee!!! Squee!!! Squee!!!
Or you can just stick to the basic barebones marquee:
<marquee> Your text here <marquee>
Thusly:
Simon Tam is a wuss and when his sister isn't looking he sneaks into the shuttle and puts on Inara's belly dance costumes