Searched up and down for this.  Below are the requirements

Inside a table cell on a web page ie <td> I have a background image
that is 23 pixels high, inside this cell I want to put a scroller that
displays text, right to left.

I have tried many styles ie <Marquee> tag with no avail.
My background image always gets repeated below the text.
The size of the marquee makes the cell larger than 23 pixels.

I would like a script that would allow me to place a scrolling text
that does not change the cell itself.
The best way to describe my problem is:  I have a black background;
there is a white line at the top and bottom of a 23 pixel high image. 
When I try to put the marquee in it, my background image ends up
putting the top white line at the bottom again.  Now I have three
lines instead of two.

I would like to put scrolling text in a cell without altering the size
of the cell.  Text size and color is a must.  It is also necessary to
be able to set the width to a percentage and to link the text to
scroll to an external text file.

Things to try: 

- Have you set the margins and cellpadding to zero? 
- Try setting the font size of the TD, or eliminating whitespace between 
  tags. The size may be bumped up by the display of spaces in the TD
font. Avoid this by keeping >'s adjacent with <'s. Alternately, add:

<td style="font-size: 1px">


If all else fails, try something like this (note how leading and
trailing whitespace is avoided):

<td style="height: 23px; margin: 0px;" background="..."
   ><div style="height: 23px; width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"
   ><yourstuffhere
   ></div
></td>

Thank You for the tip.  I did not realize there was a overflow: hidden
tag you could apply within a <td> tag.  Thanks for the tip