uptodate News Line in ASP.net

Question

Hiiiiii I want to show a news line in my asp.net page this line should revolve and it must be uptodate without using refresh button (with AJAX) this news line will takes the data from the database... I have tried with marquee tags but it didn't work well any suggestion please

Answer 1

Probably one of the easiest things you can do is to use the UpdatePanel within ASP.NET and use a ticker event that will PostBack to the server and refresh the content of your UpdatePanel given a specified interval time.

You can then tap into the client side AsynPostBack events to use a little bit of jQuery magic on the data to make it look good. Either way, you'll end up with some serverside and client side code here. You can code the client side in 100% JavaScript, but utilizing the jQuery framework would be very beneficial.

Here is a code sample on using the jQuery Cycle plugin:

 <div id="product_ticker">
    <div>
        News A
    </div>
    <div>
        News B
    </div>
    <div>
        News C
    </div>
    <div>
        News D
    </div>
 </div>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    $(function() {
        $('#product_ticker').cycle();
    });
</script>

Here are a couple of links worth looking at for more ideas:
* http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/build-a-simple-jquery-news-ticker/
* http://israelwebdev.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/jquery-ltrrtl-news-ticker/
* http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/