HTML - Marquees
What is an HTML Marquee
An HTML marquee may be a scrollable text that's often rendered either horizontally across or vertically down your HTML webpage counting on the settings you've got specified. this is often made by using <marquee> HTML tag.
Note − The <marquee> tag deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element, instead you can use JavaScript and CSS to create such effects.
Syntax
This is a simple syntax to show how 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
The following is the list of important attributes that can be used with <marquee> tag.
1. width: This specifies the width of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
2. height: This specifies the height of the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
3. direction: This specifies the direction in which marquee should scroll. This can be a value like up, down, left or right.
4. behavior: This specifies the type of scrolling of the marquee. This can have a value like a scroll, slide, and alternate.
5. scrolldelay: This specifies how long to delay between each jump. This will have a value like 10 etc.
6. scrollamount: This specifies the speed of marquee text. This can have a value like 10 etc.
7. loop: This specifies how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE, which means that the marquee loops endlessly.
8. bgcolor: This specifies background color in terms of color name or color hex value.
9. hspace: This specifies horizontal space around the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
10. vspace: This specifies vertical space around the marquee. This can be a value like 10 or 20% etc.
Below are a few examples to show how to use the 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>
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>
Example - 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>
Example -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>