Title Bar Scroller
text effects 1997 still worksScrolls text across the browser tab title. The status bar trick's surviving cousin.
In 2026: Still works everywhere. This is the one status-bar effect browsers never took away.
Where it came from: Same family as the status bar scroller. Free script archives, 1997. MDN ↗
<script language="JavaScript">
var tmsg = "*** WELCOME *** THANKS FOR VISITING *** ";
var tpos = 0;
function scrollTitle() {
document.title = tmsg.substring(tpos) + tmsg.substring(0, tpos);
tpos = (tpos + 1) % tmsg.length;
setTimeout(scrollTitle, 200);
}
scrollTitle();
</script>