In this article I will explain how to add a scrolling text to your web page.  This code can be used as a ticker, it is also called marquee text but it is easy to remember it as scrolling text.

Html Code for basic Marquee

<marquee>Html example of a marquee code</marquee>

Example of how it will look:
Html example of a marquee code

Code for a scrolling text with background

You can also add backgrounds to these scrolling texts. All you have to do is edit the tag bgcolor=”lime” you can put color names or hex colors on this field.

You can search up hex to find a Hex color chart on my website.

<marquee bgcolor="lime">Html example of a marquee code </marquee>

Example of how it will look:
Html example of a marquee code

Code for a scrolling text with background and direction with fixed width

On this example you can setup the direction the text will scroll and the width of the marquee. All you have to do is edit the height and width tags in the code.
<marquee height="100" width="150" direction="up" bgcolor="lime">Html example of a marquee code </marquee>

Here is an example of how it will look:
Html example of a marquee code