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How to implement marquee with jQuery
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(function($) { | |
$.fn.textWidth = function(){ | |
var calc = '<span style="display:none">' + $(this).text() + '</span>'; | |
$('body').append(calc); | |
var width = $('body').find('span:last').width(); | |
$('body').find('span:last').remove(); | |
return width; | |
}; | |
$.fn.marquee = function(args) { | |
var that = $(this); | |
var textWidth = that.textWidth(), | |
offset = that.width(), | |
width = offset, | |
css = { | |
'text-indent' : that.css('text-indent'), | |
'overflow' : that.css('overflow'), | |
'white-space' : that.css('white-space') | |
}, | |
marqueeCss = { | |
'text-indent' : width, | |
'overflow' : 'hidden', | |
'white-space' : 'nowrap' | |
}, | |
args = $.extend(true, { count: -1, speed: 1e1, leftToRight: false }, args), | |
i = 0, | |
stop = textWidth*-1, | |
dfd = $.Deferred(); | |
function go() { | |
if(!that.length) return dfd.reject(); | |
if(width == stop) { | |
i++; | |
if(i == args.count) { | |
that.css(css); | |
return dfd.resolve(); | |
} | |
if(args.leftToRight) { | |
width = textWidth*-1; | |
} else { | |
width = offset; | |
} | |
} | |
that.css('text-indent', width + 'px'); | |
if(args.leftToRight) { | |
width++; | |
} else { | |
width--; | |
} | |
setTimeout(go, args.speed); | |
}; | |
if(args.leftToRight) { | |
width = textWidth*-1; | |
width++; | |
stop = offset; | |
} else { | |
width--; | |
} | |
that.css(marqueeCss); | |
go(); | |
return dfd.promise(); | |
}; | |
})(jQuery); |
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