Marquee tag
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The marquee tag is a non-standard HTML markup element type which causes text onscreen to scroll from left to right across the screen.
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[edit] Usage Syntax
The marquee tag uses the following syntax:
<marquee>This is text that will appear scrolling</marquee>
[edit] Attributes
- Align: Uses the same syntax as the img tag.
- Behavior: Allows the user to set the behavior of the marquee to one of three different types:
- Scroll - DEFAULT. Scrolls the text from right-to-left, and restarts at the right side of the marquee when it has reached the left side.
- Slide - Deprecated
- Alternate - Text 'bounces' from the left side of the box to the right side.
<marquee behavior="alternate">This text will bounce from left to right</marquee>
- Bgcolor: Sets the background color of the marquee.
<marquee bgcolor=blue>This marquee's background color will be blue.</marquee>
- Direction: Sets the direction of the marquee box to either
left-to-right orright-to-left. Later browsers added support for a movie credit style bottom-upand top-downvalues.
<marquee direction="right">This text will scroll from left to right.</marquee>
- Height: This sets how tall the marquee should be.
<marquee height="20px">The height of this marquee is twenty pixels.</marquee>
- Width: This sets how wide the marquee should be.
<marquee width="100px">This marquee is only a hundred pixels wide!</marquee>
- Loop: This sets how many times the marquee should 'Loop' its text.
<marquee loop="2">You will only see this text twice before it stops playing.</marquee>
- Scrollamount: This is how many pixels the text moves between 'frames', in pixels.
<marquee scrollamount="10">This text will move ten pixels per 'frame'</marquee>
- Scrolldelay: This sets the amount of time, in milliseconds, between 'frames'.
<marquee scrolldelay="1">This would be so fast, you couldn't see it!</marquee> <marquee scrolldelay="1000">This would be so slow, you'd get no sense of animation.</marquee>
[edit] Practical Uses
The marquee is most often used for displaying news, but it has a wide variety of relevant functions. For instance, it may be used for displaying large amounts of text in a space-saving manner. It could be used for displaying lists, or even scrolling advertisements.
[edit] Compliance
The marquee element type was first invented for Microsoft's Internet Explorer and is still supported. The Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari web browsers support it for legacy page compatibility, although many other browsers do not. The tag is considered unofficial in proper XHTML or HTML. Similar effects can be achieved through the use of JavaScript on a webpage, for example.
