The Marquee tag
This tag is not part of HTML 3.2 and is only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer so if you try to
see the page with marquee tag using any other browser you won't see anything very interesting.
The <marquee> tag is used to introduce text that scrolls horizontally within a display box. Here's a
simple example.
<p align=center><font size=+3 color=red>
<marquee width=75%>
Hello World!
</marquee>
</font></p>
IE3, apparently, does not honour any other tags that appear within a marquee so it is impossible to
animate multi-colored text or images this way. This restriction has been relaxed in IE4.
The tag, which is a container tag, has 11 attributes.
Align
This tag can take one of the values top, middle and bottom. It controls the positioning of the marquee display box relative to the current text in exactly the same manner as the <img> tag's align attribute.
Behavior
This tag controls the behaviour of the displayed text. There are three possible values. Text scrolling
starts as soon as the page is downloaded, not when the user first scrolls the marquee into view.
Add a border to a table:
| Value | effect |
|---|---|
| scroll | text scrolls across display and re-appears from the other end when it has disappeared from one end. This is the default behaviour. |
| slide | This is similar to scroll except that when the sliding text reaches the far end of the box, it disappears and restarts at the starting end of the box. If the display is not looping then the text remains positioned at the far end of the box. |
| alternate | text "bounces" between the ends of the box |
Direction
This attribute controls the direction of scrolling. Permissible values are left and right specifying the
end of the box that the scroll starts from. Here's some examples.
Add a border to a table:
| Value | effect |
|---|---|
| right | starts at right hand end |
| left | starts at left hand end |
It appears that the value of this attribute does not affect the behaviour of the marquee if the value of the behavior attribute is alternate.
The following four attributes are used in exactly the same way as they are used with the <img> tag.
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