I came across an old question on Stack Overflow that I answered years ago. It was asking how to scroll text, vertically, in a marquee-like fashion. At the time, I had answered that you would need to use Flash, or JavaScript/jQuery. I thought to myself, you would most certainly need to animate the top value of a positioned element, or maybe increase a negative margin or something.

Well, we live in a very different world today. And today, we have access to @keyframes, animation, and so much more in modern browsers. This got me wondering what type of simple marquee I could whip up in an instant (wound up playing with this for a little over an hour). What I came up with is posted below.

Take some time to read through the embedded comments, and play with the code. If you have any questions please feel free to post them in the comments below and I’ll assist as I am able.

Horizontal

Vertical