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JunooniRobo
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February 5, 2011
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HTML Marquee taking data from an external text file

  • February 5, 2011
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I need to create a marquee which takes text from an external text file, so that when i change the text in the file, the marquee also changes. the marquee is placed in the header and displays on every page. Ihave no idea how to link to the external file. Any help will be appreciated.

thanks.

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Deepak5FD7
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August 12, 2020

hi,

I too looking for the same.

do u got it.

if Yes pls suggest

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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February 5, 2011

Have you first tested that the Marguee tag works within RoboHelp?

This page seems to cover the tag very well and it does not mention being able to link to an external text file. However you can link to an image so I wonder if your text could be converted to an image using a screen capture tool?

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_MARQUEE.html

Note the page does warn that this tag will not always render as desired so do test in different browsers.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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JunooniRoboAuthor
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February 5, 2011

I was looking at this page http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/emarquee.htm earlier , but could not find out how to change it to my liking.

The marquee is working in RoboHelp, but the only thing left for me is to change the source of the marquee so that it will read off a text file.

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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February 5, 2011

I'm not sure you can. I think the code and the script are designed to display an HTML file rather than a text file. Could you not display the content of an HTML file instead?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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