Java is a programming language for the Internet that soecializes in creating software programs called applets. These applets ride along the Web pages on the World Wide Web. Java applets can be included on web pages by using the HTML Tag:

< APPLET > < /APPLET >

There are thousands of Java Applets available as freeware. The applets used for this lesson are freeware applets.

In the last lesson, we learned how to use the < Marquee > HTML Tags. The disadvantage of this tag is that it only works with Internet Explorer.

A Java Applet is available that produces Scrolling Text.

For every Java applet there is a file called a class file. for the applet below it is called TickerTape.class. The class file must be placed into the directory where the HTML document will be placed.

If you have an archive program like WINZIP, you can download the file ticker.zip
or you can download a self extracting file ticker.exe

Included in the archive is a file called TickerTape.class, and a file called ticker.html.

Open the ticker.html file and copy all of the text between the < APPLET > tags, then paste it into your HTML document.

Any of the attributes following the < PARAM NAME= > tags can be changed.








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