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Try the following which works in Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4 (thanks to Don Binns for pointing out the body obejcts offsetWidth and offsetHeight properties in Internet Explorer 4):
<DIV ID="myid" STYLE="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;"> <img id=myimg src="littlepsycho.gif" Width="40"Height="40"> </DIV> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!-- var xInc=10, yInc=10; if(document.all) var xMax = document.body.offsetWidth, yMax = document.body.offsetHeight; else if (document.layers) var xMax = window.innerWidth - document.myid.document.images[0].width, yMax = window.innerHeight - document.myid.document.images[0].height; function moveit() { if (document.all) { xNew = document.all('myid').style.posLeft + xInc; yNew = document.all('myid').style.posTop + yInc; } else if (document.layers) { xNew = document.myid.left + xInc; yNew = document.myid.top + yInc; } if (xNew < xMax && xNew >=0) { if (document.all) document.all('myid').style.posLeft = xNew; else if (document.layers) document.myid.left = xNew; } else xInc = xInc * (-1); if (yNew < yMax && yNew>=0) { if (document.all) document.all('myid').style.posTop = yNew; else if (document.layers) document.myid.top = yNew; } else yInc = yInc * (-1); setTimeout("moveit()",75); } if (document.all || document.layers) moveit(); //--></SCRIPT>
The following was submitted by Eliot:
In Internet Explorer you can use <marquee>sample.gif</marquee> and the image will scroll. Put <marqueebehavior>sample.gif</marqueebehavior> and the image will bounce back and forth, just as if it were text:
<marquee>sample.gif</marquee> <marqueebehavior>sample.gif</marqueebehavior>