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Marquee element
Example of marquee text (accomplished via CSS; the marquee tag itself is deprecated)
The marquee tag is a non-standard HTML element which causes text to scroll up, down, left or right automatically. The tag was first introduced in early versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and was compared to Netscape's blink element, as a proprietary non-standard extension to the HTML standard with usability problems. The W3C advises against its use in HTML documents.
Marquee can be distracting because the human eye is attracted to movement, and marquee text is constantly moving.
As with the blink element, marquee-tagged images or text are not always completely visible on rendered pages, making printing such pages an inefficient (if not impossible) task; typically multiple attempts are required to capture all text that could be displayed where messages scroll or blink. The behavior="alternate" version of marquee makes text jitter back and forth but does not obscure any part of it if scrolling widths are set correctly.
Because marquee text moves, links within it are more difficult to click than those in static text, depending on the speed and length of the scrolling. Users only get one chance every time it scrolls past. Also, scrolling text too fast can make it unreadable to some people, particularly those with visual impairments. This can easily frustrate users. To combat this, client-side scripting allows marquees to be programmed to stop when the mouse is over them.
Unlike its blinking counterpart, the marquee element has several attributes that can be used to control and adjust the appearance of the marquee.
A marquee element can contain arbitrary HTML, so in addition to text it could move one or more images, movie clips, or animated GIFs.
The marquee tag has been deprecated in most browsers, but the same behavior can still be implemented with Cascading Style Sheets, like this:
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Marquee element
Example of marquee text (accomplished via CSS; the marquee tag itself is deprecated)
The marquee tag is a non-standard HTML element which causes text to scroll up, down, left or right automatically. The tag was first introduced in early versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and was compared to Netscape's blink element, as a proprietary non-standard extension to the HTML standard with usability problems. The W3C advises against its use in HTML documents.
Marquee can be distracting because the human eye is attracted to movement, and marquee text is constantly moving.
As with the blink element, marquee-tagged images or text are not always completely visible on rendered pages, making printing such pages an inefficient (if not impossible) task; typically multiple attempts are required to capture all text that could be displayed where messages scroll or blink. The behavior="alternate" version of marquee makes text jitter back and forth but does not obscure any part of it if scrolling widths are set correctly.
Because marquee text moves, links within it are more difficult to click than those in static text, depending on the speed and length of the scrolling. Users only get one chance every time it scrolls past. Also, scrolling text too fast can make it unreadable to some people, particularly those with visual impairments. This can easily frustrate users. To combat this, client-side scripting allows marquees to be programmed to stop when the mouse is over them.
Unlike its blinking counterpart, the marquee element has several attributes that can be used to control and adjust the appearance of the marquee.
A marquee element can contain arbitrary HTML, so in addition to text it could move one or more images, movie clips, or animated GIFs.
The marquee tag has been deprecated in most browsers, but the same behavior can still be implemented with Cascading Style Sheets, like this: