HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Animated Text

In what appears to be an effort to woo advertisers, Internet Explorer has added a form of animated text to HTML. The animation is simple — text scrolling horizontally across the display — but effective for moving banners and other elements that readily and easily animate an otherwise static document. On the other hand, like the <blink> tag, animated text can easily become intrusive and abusive for the reader. Use with caution, please, if at all.

The <marquee> Tag

The <marquee> tag defines the text that scrolls across the Internet Explorer user’s display. The <marquee> tag is for Internet Explorer only and is not a standard tag. For this reason alone, we do not recommend that you use this extension tag.

<marquee>

Function

Creates a scrolling text marquee

Attributes

align, behavior, bgcolor, class, controls (), direction, height, hspace, loop, scrollamount, scrolldelay, style, vspace, width

End tag

</marquee>; never omitted

Contains

plain_text

Used in

body_content

The text between the <marquee> tag and its required </marquee> end tag scrolls horizontally across the display. The various tag attributes control the size of the display area, its appearance, its alignment with the surrounding text, and the scrolling speed.

The <marquee> tag and attributes are ignored by other ...