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 <marquees> tag.
Note: The HTML <marquee> 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 <marquee> tag is as follows:
<marquee attribute_name="attribute_value"....more attributes> One or more lines or text message or image </marquee>
The <marquee> Tag Attributes
Following is the list of important attributes which can be used with <marquee> 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
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML marquee Tag</title> </head> <body> <marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee> </body> </html>
This will produce following result:
Examples - 2
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML marquee Tag</title> </head> <body> <marquee width="50%">This example will take only 50% width</marquee> </body> </html>
This will produce following result:
Examples - 3
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML marquee Tag</title> </head> <body> <marquee direction="right">This text will scroll from left to right</marquee> </body> </html>
This will produce following result:
Examples - 4
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML marquee Tag</title> </head> <body> <marquee direction="up">This text will scroll from bottom to up</marquee> </body> </html>
This will produce following result:
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