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CSS Marquee Module Level 3

W3C Working Group Note 14 October 2014

This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-css3-marquee-20141014/
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css3-marquee-20081205
Editors:
Bert Bos (W3C) <>

Abstract

This Note replaces a draft specification for CSS features relating to a “marquee” effect. The specification is no longer being developed.

Status of this document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

Publication as a Working Group Note does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by the CSS Working Group (part of the Style Activity).

The (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org (see instructions) is preferred for discussion of this document. When sending e-mail, please put the text “css3-marquee” in the subject, preferably like this: “[css3-marquee] …summary of comment…

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This document is governed by the 1 August 2014 W3C Process Document.

This specification has been discontinued. The CSS Working Group did not find enough implementations and at this point no further work is planned.

Table of contents

1. Summary

The “marquee” effect is a method of handling overflow in CSS. It tells the user agent to slowly move the contents of a box back and forth so that, over time, all of the contents is visible at least once. It can replace a scroll bar or other scrolling mechanism and requires no user interaction.

Development of the marquee features of CSS has been abandoned. See the previous-version link above for a description of the earlier proposals.

Note that a somewhat similar effect of moving text can be achieved with generic CSS animations [CSS3-ANIMATIONS].

2. References

Informative references:

[CSS3-ANIMATIONS]
Dean Jackson; et al. CSS Animations. 19 February 2013. W3C Working Draft. (Work in progress.) URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-animations-20130219/