<marquee> element lives! - Emulating the behavior of the old marquee element with CoffeeScript/JavaScript

marquee.coffee

# https://gist.github.com/eric1234/548690

class @Marquee

  constructor: (@element, @options={}) ->
    @clean @element
    @stopped = true

    # Set defaults
    @options['duration'] or= 30
    @options['wrapAround'] = true unless 'wrapAround' of @options
    @options['direction'] or= 'forward'

    # If everything fits don't bother with all this mess
    return if this.element.scrollWidth == this.element.clientWidth

    # Create wrapping container to scroll the marquee in.
    # Adapted from Prototype's wrap method.
    @container = document.createElement 'div'
    @container.className = 'marquee-wrapper'
    @element.parentNode.replaceChild @container, @element if @element.parentNode
    @container.appendChild @element

    # Move some of the relevant marquee styles to this wrapper.
    @container.style.width = @element.clientWidth+'px'
    @container.style.height = @element.clientHeight+'px'
    @container.style.overflow = 'hidden'

    # Keep in mind how big it was so we know when to reset
    @originalWidth = @element.scrollWidth

    # Make it look like it is wrapping around by duping content
    if @options.wrapAround
      trimmed = element.innerHTML.trim()
      @element.innerHTML = trimmed + trimmed + trimmed

    # Size restrictions/clipping moved to wrapper, remove from element
    @element.style.width = @element.scrollWidth+'px'
    @element.style.height = @element.scrollHeight+'px'
    @element.style.overflow = 'auto'

    @container.scrollLeft = @originalWidth if @options.wrapAround

  # Will start the marquee moving.
  #
  # If no argument is given it will move until it gets to the end of the
  # content. If wrapAround is enabled it will reset and do another move to the
  # end of the content creating a never-ending scrolling of the content.
  #
  # If a distance is given then it will only move that far then stop.
  #
  # If a distance is given then the onFinish is called when the
  # animation ends. If no distance is given then onFinish is called
  # every time the animation resets.
  move: (distance=null, onFinish=->) ->
    @stopped = false

    to = if distance?
      distance
    else
      @originalWidth

    ending_position = if @options.direction is 'forward'
        @container.scrollLeft + to
      else
        @container.scrollLeft - to

    if @options.wrapAround
      if ending_position > 2 * @originalWidth
        @container.scrollLeft -= @originalWidth
        ending_position -= @originalWidth
      if ending_position < 0
        @container.scrollLeft += @originalWidth
        ending_position += @originalWidth
    start_position = @container.scrollLeft

    callback = if @options.wrapAround && !distance
      =>
        onFinish()
        unless @stopped
          @container.scrollLeft = start_position
          @animation = Marquee.tween @container, @options.duration, ending_position, callback
    else
      =>
        @stopped = true
        onFinish()
    @animation = Marquee.tween @container, @options.duration, ending_position, callback

  # Stops all animation so you can issue new move commands.
  stop: ->
    @stopped = true
    Marquee.stop @animation if @animation

  clean: (node) ->
    to_remove = []
    for c in node.childNodes
      if c.nodeType is 8 || (c.nodeType is 3 && !/S/.test(c.nodeValue))
        to_remove.push c
      else if c.nodeType is 1
        @clean c
    for n in to_remove
      n.parentNode.removeChild n

# To actually do the moving we farm this out to a callback. This way the actual
# movement can be handled by a library like morpheus which is designed as a
# single high-performance loop using constant speed animation and the
# requestAnimationFrame standard.
#
# This should be replaced by a function that actually does the work.
Marquee = @Marquee
Marquee.tween = (element, duration, target_scroll, oncomplete) ->
  # By default implement a stupid "animation" that just move it without
  # any in-between stages.
  element.scrollLeft = target_scroll
  oncomplete()
Marquee.stop = (animation) ->

# Adapted from
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498970/#answer-8522376
unless String::trim
  String::trim = -> @replace /^\s+|\s+$/g,''

usage.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <style>
    #test {
      font-size: 3em;
      width: 10em;
      height: 1.5em;
      overflow: hidden;
      white-space: nowrap;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<div id="test">
  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
</div>

<script src="marquee.js"></script>
<script src="morpheus.js"></script>
<script>
  Marquee.tween = function(element, duration, end, onComplete) {
    morpheus.tween(duration*1000, function(position) {
      element.scrollLeft = position
    }, onComplete, function(p) {return p}, element.scrollLeft, end)
  }
  marquee = new Marquee(document.getElementById('test'));
  marquee.move();
</script>

</html>

The old code is still available under a previous revision. But the new code will work with prototype/scriptaculous. All you need to do is provide the Script.aculo.us tween effect in the callback and you can use the latest code.