Marquee in HTML

Question

how would I go about making a marquee in html? could I define everything i.e. speed, looping, text color, background color, direction, etc. With just html or should I need to know another language to define those aspects? Also could I implement an image in the marquee?

Answer 1

You don't want to use that tag. Really. It is evil.

For alternatives, check out:

• The Silky Smooth Marquee
• jScroller2
• Cross Browser Marquee

Answer 2

@Paolo is correct, you also might wanna look into tools to do similar things but have much more functionality. jScroller for example.

Answer 3

You can do images in the marquee tag:

http://jdstiles.com/java/scrollers/scrollingimage.html

But it's not a good tag to use. Go for one of the many javascript libraries that do this, such as this Cross Browser Marquee that allows you to set all the parameters you like.

Answer 4

Something like this:

<MARQUEE id=Marquee2 title="" 
style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px; BORDER-TOP: 1px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; Z-INDEX: 2; OVERFLOW: hidden; BORDER-LEFT: 1px; WIDTH: 5.197in; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px; HEIGHT: 0.156in" 
trueSpeed scrollDelay=150 MsoTextAlign="General">My Text Goes Here</MARQUEE>