Every MARQUEE Attribute

text effects 1996 partly

The full set, including the ones that make it bounce, crawl, or stop when you point at it.

In 2026: All of it still renders in every browser, and the HTML standard keeps it that way: MARQUEE sits in the obsolete features section, banned for authors, required of browsers. It was Microsoft's answer to BLINK, which means the two worst tags of the era exist because of each other.

Where it came from: Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 HTML extensions, 1996. Documented in the HTML standard's obsolete features section as something browsers must still render. MDN ↗

<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left" scrollamount="6" scrolldelay="85"
         loop="infinite" width="100%" height="30" bgcolor="#000080"
         hspace="10" vspace="10"
         onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()">
  <font color="#FFFF00" face="Comic Sans MS" size="4">
    *** POINT AT ME TO STOP *** SIGN MY GUESTBOOK ***
  </font>
</marquee>

<marquee behavior="alternate" scrollamount="4" width="60%">bounces off both ends</marquee>
<marquee behavior="slide" scrollamount="8" width="60%">slides in once and stops</marquee>
<marquee direction="up" height="60" scrollamount="2" width="200"
         style="border:1px solid #999">scrolls upward</marquee>
<marquee direction="right" scrollamount="3" width="60%">right to left, reversed</marquee>

sandboxed demo · breaks nothing but itselfrestart

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