HTML Marquee Tag

By Dinesh Thakur

This tag is used to scroll text horizontally across the screen. It is mainly used to deliver a specific message to the visitor or to scroll Ads on a page. It is not a standard HTML tag and so the browser support for it is typically limited to Internet explorer.

The following lines of code show the use or marquee tag:

<HTML>
  <HEAD><TITLE> MARQUEE TAG</TITLE></HEAD>
  <BODY>
    <H1><MARQUEE>HTTP://ECOMPUTERNOTES.COM</MARQUEE></H1>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The following code is displayed in which the text within the <MARQUEE>and </MARQUEE> tags scrolls across the screen from right to left. But by including the attribute direction=”right” in marquee tag code changes the direction of flow of text i.e left to right.

By including the attribute direction=”up” in marquee tag of code changes the direction of flow of text from bottom to top and direction=” down” changes the flow of text from top to bottom.

&lt;HTML&gt;
&lt;HEAD&gt;  
&lt;TITLE&gt;EXAMPLE1&lt;/TITLE&gt;
&lt;/HEAD&gt;
   &lt;BODY BGCOLOR=”PINK”&gt;
     &lt;MARQUEE DIRECTION=”UP”&gt;
       &lt;H1 ALIGN=”CENTER”&gt;LAPTOPS&lt;BR&gt;HCL&lt;BR&gt;IBM&lt;BR&gt;HP&lt;BR&gt;LENOVO&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;
     &lt;/MQRQUEE&gt;
   &lt;/BODY&gt;
&lt;/HTML&gt;

Attributes used in <MARQUEE> tag

Attribute	Possible values	Functional
Bgcolor	Anv standard color name or hexadecimal color value.	Specifies the background color of the marquee.
Direction	Left, Right	Specifies the direction in which the marquee contents Scrolls.
Height	Any valid percentage or no. of pixels	Specifies the vertical dimension of the marquee
Behavior	Scroll, Slide, Alternate	Sets the behavior of marquee to one of following: Scroll: Text scrolls like a stock ticker. Slide: Text slides into view. Alternate: Text alternates between scrolling and sliding.
Width	Any valid percentage or no. of pixels	Specifies the horizontal dimension of the marquee.
Hspace	Any valid percentage or no. of pixels	Specifies the left and right margin of the marquee
Vspace	Any valid percentage or no. of pixels	Specifies the top and bottom margin of the marquee.
Loop	Any positive integer of INFINITE	Controls the number of appearance of the marquee content.
Scrollamount	Number of pixels	Specifies the shift of marquee text
Scrolldelay	Number specifying the delay in milliseconds	Specifies how often the marquee text redraws.

About Dinesh Thakur

Dinesh Thakur holds an B.C.A, MCDBA, MCSD certifications. Dinesh authors the hugely popular Computer Notes blog. Where he writes how-to guides around Computer fundamental , computer software, Computer programming, and web apps.

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