In this article, we will learn how to implement the marquee effect for a menu using CSS MarqueeMenu plugin. Marquee is a type of animation effect used in developing web pages for getting some attractive text or image scrolling in vertical or horizontal directions.
Note: Please download the CSS MarqueeMenu plugin in the working folder and include the required files in the head section of your HTML code.
<link href=”https://use.typekit.net/zhq0vyf.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”/>
<link href=”css/base.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”/>
Example: The following example demonstrates the marquee effect for the given menu using HTML controls and CSS based MarqueeMenu plugin. Different classes like “marquee”, “marquee__inner”, “menu__item-link” of the of “base.css” file of the plugin are attached to the HTML tags as shown below for the expected output.
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" class="no-js"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>CSS-only Marquee Menu Effect </title> <meta name="description" content="A menu with a css-only marquee hover effect" /> <link rel="stylesheet" <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/base.css" /> <style> body{ text-align:center; } </style></head> <body class="demo-1"> <h2 style="color:green">GeeksForGeeks</h2> <b>Marquee Menu Effect using CSS</b> <main> <nav class="menu"> <div class="menu__item"> <a class="menu__item-link">Links</a> <img class="menu__item-img" src="img/background1.jpg" alt="geeks image"/> <div class="marquee"> <div class="marquee__inner" aria-hidden="true"> <span>Hyperlinks</span> <span>Hypertexts</span> <span>Hypermedia</span> <span>Graphics</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="menu__item"> <a class="menu__item-link">HTML</a> <img class="menu__item-img" src="img/background2.jpg" alt="gfg image"/> <div class="marquee"> <div class="marquee__inner" aria-hidden="true"> <span>Attributes</span> <span>Paragraphs</span> <span>Head</span> <span>Tables</span> <span>Lists</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="menu__item"> <a class="menu__item-link">CSS</a> <img class="menu__item-img" src="img/background3.jpg" alt="GFG image"/> <div class="marquee"> <div class="marquee__inner" aria-hidden="true"> <span>Inline styles</span> <span>External CSS</span> <span>Internal CSS</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="menu__item"> <a class="menu__item-link">Geeks</a> <img class="menu__item-img" src="img/geeksimage1.png" alt="GFG image"/> <div class="marquee"> <div class="marquee__inner" aria-hidden="true"> <span>PHP</span> <span>jQuery</span> <span>Algorithm</span> <span>JavaScript</span> <span>MySQL</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="menu__item"> <a class="menu__item-link">GeeksWeek</a> <img class="menu__item-img" src="img/gfg2.jpg" alt="gfg image"/> <div class="marquee"> <div class="marquee__inner" aria-hidden="true"> <span>GeeksWeek</span> <span>Contact</span> <span>GeeksWeek</span> <span>Contest</span> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </main> </body></html> |
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