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Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsScrolling Text YES or NO!
Hi all,
I have been asked to put some scrolling text onto a site using the simple marquee HTML method.
I am just curious to know what peoples thoughts are on using the marquee attribute is it old fashioned/ bad design is it best to use JQuery of some sort ???
5 Answers
Tom Bedford
15,645 PointsNo as it's hard to read & distracts from other (perhaps more important) content. If the content that is wanted in the marquee is meant to be important then having it scroll means users cannot see all of it at once.
Best to not use it.
Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsCheers Tom,
The area it has been requested is to highlight an up coming event basically they want the event information to scroll above a registration button!
Thanks for you input
James Barnett
39,199 PointsI believe this follows into the category of just because we can doesn't mean we should.
But it can be easily done in CSS3 using keyframe animation, with support for IE10+, Firefox 5+, Chrome, Safari 4+.
Here's a proof of concept: http://codepen.io/jamesbarnett/pen/kfmKa
Demo of code from: http://visualidiot.com/articles/css3
Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsThanks James Barnett I appreciate your links!
Looks like a lot more work doing it the CSS way :)
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIt's probably simpler than any JQuery you'd find to do it. But using a marquee interaction will almost certainly lead to a very poor user experience.
Anthony Hind
5,715 PointsYeah I appreciate that James the JQuery method would be very difficult compared to CSS to be honest I think i may leave the scrolling effect as you say just adds to a poor user experience!