The Marquee Tag

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Opening tag : <Marquee>
Closing tag: </Marquee>

Purpose:
Marquee is a tag which creates scrolling text within many browsers. It is often used to highlight important text - perhaps current news stories. Care should be taken with it though as some users find scrolling text irritating.

Attributes:
Align=alignment
- Specifies how to align text around the Marquee. Choices are LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT.

Behavior=value
- Specifies the way the marquee will scroll. The choices are SCROLL, SLIDE or ALTERNATE.

Bgcolor=color
- Specifies the color for the background of the marquee.

Direction=value
- Specifies the direction the text will travel. Choices are LEFT and RIGHT.

Height=#
- Specifies the height of the marquee - normally in pixels.

Hspace=#
- Determines how much white space to leave to the left and right of the marquee.

Loop=#
- Specifies how many times the text should loop.

Scrollamount=#
- Specifies how far the text should move in between redraws.

Scrolldelay=#
- Specifies the number of milliseconds in between redraws.

Vspace=#
- Determines how much white space to leave above and below the marquee.

Width=#
- Specifies the width of the marquee.

Example:

<Marquee height=20 width=200 align=right direction=right behavior=scroll>Web Guru Guide.com </Marquee>

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