HTML - <marquee> Tag

Description

The HTML <marquee> tag is used for scrolling piece of text or image displayed either horizontally across or vertically down your web site page depending on the settings.

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

   <head>
      <title>HTML marquee Tag</title>
   </head>

   <body>
      <marquee>This is basic example of marquee</marquee>
      <marquee direction = "up">The direction of text will be from bottom to top.</marquee>
   </body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

Global Attributes

This tag supports all the global attributes described in − HTML Attribute Reference

Specific Attributes

The HTML <marquee> tag also supports the following additional attributes −

Attribute	Value	Description
behavior	scroll slide alternate	Defines the type of scrolling.
bgcolor	rgb(x,x,x) #xxxxxx colorname	Deprecated − Defines the direction of scrolling the content.
direction	up down left right	Defines the direction of scrolling the content.
height	pixels or %	Defines the height of marquee.
hspace	pixels	Specifies horizontal space around the marquee.
loop	number	Specifies how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE, which means that the marquee loops endlessly.
scrolldelay	seconds	Defines how long to delay between each jump.
scrollamount	number	Defines how how far to jump.
width	pixels or %	Defines the width of marquee.
vspace	pixels	Specifies vertical space around the marquee.

Event Attributes

This tag supports all the event attributes described in − HTML Events Reference

Browser Support

Chrome	Firefox	IE	Opera	Safari	Android
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?

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