How to get scrolling text at the bottom of IE

[midi25]

Hi these may be silly to you guys but am a bit baffled by them at the moment.

Firstly what does NB&SP stand for in HTML? and are they important in your code?

Secondly how do you get scrolling text to appear in the bottom of IE. I often open a site and see in the bottom left of the browser scrolling text saying welcome etc.

If someone could please help me on these.

Many thanks

[moonbiter]

If you mean  , this is an HTML Entity for a non-breaking space [htmlhelp.com].

The scrolling text in the status bar is set by javascript that affects the output of the window.status object. There [javascript.internet.com] are [twics.com] many [workbench.netobjects.com] examples [engin.umd.umich.edu] of how [wsabstract.com] to do it [stud4.tuwien.ac.at] on the web [javascript-page.com]. Other variations of this scroll effect [javascript.internet.com] are also known to exist.

Google is your friend. ;)

[rewboss]

Animated status bar text is very tacky, very annoying and effectively disables a very important part of the browser for many people (I'm constantly referring to it).

  -- as has been pointed out -- is a non-breaking space, and is important where you want to put a space in but you don't want the line to break at the point.

For instance, imagine I have a text like this:

This will take place at 5.30 pm.

Now, I can't tell where your browser will put line breaks in. It all depends on what your OS and browser settings are, and how you've sized the browser window. It might put the line break at an inconvient place:

This will take place at 5.30
pm.

That looks unprofessional and it causes people to pause for a second as they have to work out how to relate the "pm" to the previous line. By using   (5.30 pm) I can ensure that the line break occurs at a different point, so the text now reads:

This will take place at
5.30 pm.

That's much easier for the average human brain to process.