24. HTML Marquees

 

An HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either horizontally across or vertically down your webpage depending on the settings. This is created by using HTML tag.

Note: The HTML tag may not be supported by various browsers so its not recommended to rely on this tag, instead you can use Javascript and CSS to create such effects.

Syntax

A simple syntax to use HTML tag is as follows:

 attribute_name="attribute_value"....more attributes>

One or more lines or text message or image

The Tag Attributes

Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with tag.

Attribute	Description
width	This specifies the width of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
height	This specifies the height of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
direction	This specifies the direction in which marquee should scroll. This can be a value like up, down, left or right.
behavior	This specifies the type of scrolling of the marquee. This can have a value like scroll, slide and alternate.
scrolldelay	This specifies how long to delay between each jump. This will have a value like 10 etc.
scrollamount	This specifies the speed of marquee text. This can have a value like 10 etc.
loop	This specifies how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE, which means that the marquee loops endlessly.
bgcolor	This specifies background color in terms of color name or color hex value.
hspace	This specifies horizontal space around the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
vspace	This specifies vertical space around the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.

Below are few examples to demonstrate the usage of marquee tag.

Examples - 1

This is basic example of marquee

Examples - 2

width="50%">This example will take only 50% width

Examples - 3

direction="right">This text will scroll from left to right

Examples - 4

direction="up">This text will scroll from bottom to up

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