Link in Marquee unclickable!

html css user-interface marquee
Tony C picture Tony C · Aug 17, 2009 · Viewed 11k times · Source

Ok heres my deal, I have a marquee like this:

<marquee style=";position:absolute;left:608;top:10;
font-family:Arial;font-size:24pt;
color:#FFFFFF;height:153;
"scrollamount="4" direction="down">
<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a></marquee>

Now for some reason this link is unclickable! It looks like a link but it doesn't act like one. Any way I could make this work guys?

By the way, using FF 3.5

Ok just to show you guys the amount of marquees i'm dealing with go to:

www.letsgettagged.tk, it's not for real but I just needed something to use my idea on. I'm still going to add more scrollers but this is what I put together really fast.

Answer

Rex M picture Rex M · Aug 17, 2009

Don't use a marquee to make things scroll - use JavaScript. Here's two popular ones:

[Marquee] is deprecated by the W3C and not advised by them for use in any HTML documents.

Marquee is not officially supported in any browser but IE - any others that do aren't guaranteed to keep doing so, and will probably be dropped at some point since Microsoft is getting over their "let's make totally non-standard stupid tags that break the web" phase.

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