How do I make a scrolling marquee?How do I make it change direction?How do I change the marquee speed?How do I add a marquee background?How do I make images scroll?









How do I make a scrolling marquee? This is when words scroll from right to left across the page (or left to right or maybe even down!). This page is for those of you who use the Internet Explorer browser, the marquee tag does not work in any other browser. Copy and paste this code into your editor.



<marquee behavior=scroll direction="left">Your message here</marquee>





Hi! Welcome to Rethnaraj's Blog!









Here is a variation on the basic marquee, I like this one =) The text will slide in from the right and stop at the left margin. Just add this tag:





<marquee behavior=slide direction=left>your message here</marquee>







Isn't this cool? You might need to reload to see it in action









You can make a marquee go back and forth between the margins:





<marquee behavior="alternate">your message here</marquee>





Welcome to Rethnaraj's Blog!









You can add different widths to any marquee:





<marquee behavior="alternate" bgcolor="#color" width="400">your message here</marquee>





Welcome to Rethnaraj's Blog









You can change the font type, color and size by adding the font tag before the marquee, just remember to close the font tag at the end of the marquee. Also, you can make any of your marquee messages a hyperlink by adding the <a href> tag before and after your message.











How do I make it change direction? If you want it to go in a different direction, just type in "right" instead of "left", or "up" and even "down" in your basic marquee code:

Hi! Welcome to Rethnaraj's Blog! This is a really cool marquee. You can even add hyperlinks!! ">Click here! You can even add images:

How do I change the marquee speed? You just need to add the scrollamount tag to your marquee tag like this:





<marquee behavior=scroll direction="left" scrollamount="5">Your message here</marquee>





The higher your number, the faster your marquee will scroll. Some examples (don't watch this too long, it will make you dizzy):





I'm slow (scroll amount="1")

I'm slow (scroll amount="3")

I'm slow (scroll amount="5")

I'm medium (scroll amount="7")

I'm medium (scroll amount="9")

I'm medium (scroll amount="11")

I'm fast(scroll amount="13")

I'm fast (scroll amount="15")

I'm fast (scroll amount="17")

I'm super fast (scroll amount="50")