Marquee Codes

This page contains marquee codes. Feel free to copy and paste the marquee codes into your own website, blog, MySpace page, or other HTML document. And feel free to modify the code as you wish.

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Continuous Scrolling Marquee Code

The following example demonstrates what the basic HTML marquee code does. The marquee tag allows stuff (i.e. text, images, etc) to scroll across the page.

Using behavior="scroll" sets the marquee to scroll continuously - that is, every time the text has scrolled all the way across, it starts again. It's basically in a loop. We set its direction using the direction.

Horizontal Marquee

This HTML marquee is scrolling horizontally from right to left. Although this tends to be the default, you can specify direction="left" in the HTML code. You can also set it to right, up, and down (see below).

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left">Your left scrolling marquee text goes here</marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>	Your left scrolling marquee text goes here

Vertical Marquee Code

Here, the text scrolls upward. This is acheived by using both behavior="scroll" and direction="up". You could change this to direction="down" if you prefer.

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="up">Your vertically scrolling marquee text goes here</marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>	Your vertically scrolling marquee text goes here

Slide-in Marquee Code

This example sets the text to slide in, and then stay there. It doesn't loop continuously like the above examples. It simply slides in, then stops. This is acheived by using behavior="slide".

Tip: If you don't see the text sliding in here, refresh the page - the text probably slid in before you noticed it!

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="slide" direction="left">Your marquee (slide-in) text goes here</marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>	Your marquee (slide-in) text goes here

Bouncing Marquee Code

Here, the text bounces back and forth. This is acheived by using behavior="alternate".

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="alternate" direction="left">Your bouncing marquee text goes here</marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>	Your bouncing marquee text goes here

Marquee Speed

You can speed up or slow down your marquees by using the scrollamount attribute along with a numeric value. Here, we use several values to set different marquees speed.

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="right" scrollamount="10">Hare</marquee> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="right" scrollamount="5">Tortoise</marquee> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="right" scrollamount="1">Snail</marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>	HareTortoiseSnail

Scrolling Images

You can also make images scroll. To do this, simply add image code within the marquee tag instead of text. Here, we add an animated gif - one which suits the scrolling motion of the marquee.

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left"><img src="http://www.htmlcodes.me/images/marquees/flying_bat.gif" width="125" height="82" alt="Flying bat in a marquee" /></marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>

Images and Text

There's nothing to stop you putting more than one HTML element inside your HTML marquee codes. Doing so will make both scroll.

Source Code	Result
<!-- Codes by HTMLcodes.me --> <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left"> <div style="text-align:center;"> <img src="http://www.htmlcodes.me/images/marquees/flying_bat.gif" width="125" height="82" alt="Flying bat in a marquee" /><br />Bruce the Bat </div> </marquee> <p><a style="font-size:11px;color:#999;" href="http://www.html.am/html-editors/online-html-editor.cfm">HTML editor</a></p>	Bruce the Bat

Marquee Attributes

The <marquee> tag accepts a number of attributes (some of which are included in the above examples). Feel free to experiment with these settings to see the effect they have on your scrolling text. The full list of attributes are:

width	Sets the width of the marquee	scrollamount	How far to jump as it moves
height	Sets the height of the marquee	loop	How many times it should loop
direction	Sets the direction of the marquee	bgcolor	Sets the background color of the marquee
behavior	Whether to slide, bounce, or scroll	hspace	Sets the amount of horizontal space around the marquee
scrolldelay	How long the marquee should wait before each jump	vspace	Sets the amount of vertical space around the marquee