HTML Marquees

A HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either horizontally across or vertically down your web site page depending on the settings. This is created by using HTML tag <marquee>.

Syntax:

A simple syntax to use marquee is as follows:

<marquee attribute_name = “attribute_value”….more attributes>

One or more lines or text message or image.

</marquee>

Attributes:

A HTML marquee can have following attributes:

·         Width: how wide the marquee is. This will have a value like 10 or 20 % etc.

·         Height: how tall the marquee is. This will have a value like 10 or 20%etc.

·         Direction: which direction the marquee should scroll. This will have value either up, down, left or right.

·         Behaviour: what type of scrolling. This will have value scroll, slid and alternate.

·         Scrolldelay: how long to delay between each jump. This will have  a value like 10 etc.

·         Scrollamount: how far to jump. This will have a value like 10 etc.

·         Loop: how many times to loop. The default value is INFINITE, which names that the marquee loops endlessely.

·         Bgcolor: background color. This will have a value like 10 or 20% etc.

·         Vspace: vertical space around the marquee. This will have a value like 10 or 20% etc.

·         Hspace: horizontal space around the marquee. This will have a value like 10 or 20% etc.