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The Silky Smooth Marquee

By: Mark Dijkstra    In: CSS Javascript jQuery

As we abused the Internet back in the 90 with tags like and the last 10 years have seen the gradual extinction of these proprietary tags until we did full circle and the marquee effect appears in CSS 3.

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There’s actually a very strong business case and requirement for the marquee tag – since the only the alternative is often a hacky solution (I feel) that shifts the CSS left position which, depending on your browser, will begin to eat away at your CPU.


Funnily enough, the marquee tag is pretty well supported amongst the browser, but the actual effect is poorly executed natively (which is kind of odd if it’s built directly in to the browser). So let’s solve this with JavaScript.

See a demo here

Written by: Mark Dijkstra

Mark Dijkstra is the founder and main writer of OpenSourceHunter. He's also a passionate freelance web developer and designer. Mark is one of those people that spend too much time on the internet to keep up with all of the trends and tools.
You can follow Mark on twitter @ MarkDijkstra

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