HTML Marquee: Automatic Horizontal Scrolling

Xah Lee, 2005-08-30, 2012-08-30

Marquee element is invented by Microsoft back around 1999. It is used to make text or images to automatically scroll. Typically, in a horizontal strip.

Here's the example of marquee HTML source code:

<marquee bgcolor="#ffff00" width="600" height="50">The BOSS IS ON A ROLL</marquee>

Here's what your browser shows:

“marquee” element's attributes:

• width
• height
• hspace
• vspace
• bgcolor
• loop
• direction
• behavior
• scrolldelay
• scrollamount

The “marquee” element was supported by all browsers, but as of today 2012-08-30, Firefox doesn't support it.

“marquee” is re-introduced in CSS3. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/