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The HTMLMarqueeElement interface provides methods to manipulate <marquee> elements.
It inherits properties and methods from the HTMLElement interface.
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.
HTMLMarqueeElement.behavior Sets how the text is scrolled within the marquee. Possible values are scroll, slide and alternate. If no value is specified, the default value is scroll.
HTMLMarqueeElement.bgColor Sets the background color through color name or hexadecimal value.
HTMLMarqueeElement.direction Sets the direction of the scrolling within the marquee. Possible values are left, right, up and down. If no value is specified, the default value is left.
HTMLMarqueeElement.height Sets the height in pixels or percentage value.
HTMLMarqueeElement.hspace Sets the horizontal margin.
HTMLMarqueeElement.loop Sets the number of times the marquee will scroll. If no value is specified, the default value is 1, which means the marquee will scroll continuously.
HTMLMarqueeElement.scrollAmount Sets the amount of scrolling at each interval in pixels. The default value is 6.
HTMLMarqueeElement.scrollDelay Sets the interval between each scroll movement in milliseconds. The default value is 85. Note that any value smaller than 60 is ignored and the value 60 is used instead, unless trueSpeed is true.
HTMLMarqueeElement.trueSpeed By default, scrollDelay values lower than 60 are ignored. If trueSpeed is true, then those values are not ignored.
"HTMLMarqueeElement.vspace Sets the vertical margin.
HTMLMarqueeElement.width Sets the width in pixels or percentage value.
Inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.
HTMLMarqueeElement.start() Starts scrolling of the marquee.
HTMLMarqueeElement.stop() Stops scrolling of the marquee.
bounce Fires when the marquee has reached the end of its scroll position. It can only fire when the behavior attribute is set to alternate.
finish Fires when the marquee has finished the amount of scrolling that is set by the loop attribute. It can only fire when the loop attribute is set to some number that is greater than 0.
start Fires when the marquee starts scrolling.
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