Posted by Aaron Saray on 01/08/08 00:36

On Jan 6, 11:10 pm, Isaac Grover <isaac.gro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good evening from Wisconsin,
>
> One of our clients has requested a horizontal scrolling marquee for one
> line on one page of their site, and we're having a difficult time placing
> the marquee inside the box that it is supposed to be in.
>
> Here is the old look without the marquee:http://www.recoveryandhealth.org/prototype/index-previous.html
>
> And here is the new look with the marquee:http://www.recoveryandhealth.org/prototype/index.html
>
> What is the javascript ticker doing such that it moves itself outside the
> box?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Isaac Grover, Owner
> Quality Computer Services of River Falls, Wisconsin
> Web:http://www.qcs-rf.com

Could it be that the javascript ticker uses absolute positioning? If
this is the case, the box cannot determine the height of the ticker,
nor that it is indeed supposed to contain the ticker. You will have
to give the box a hardset height in order to 'contain' the scroller, I
think.

-aaron

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