The marquee direction property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of the direction attribute of the <marquee> tag.
Syntax:
It is used to return the marquee direction property.
marqueeObject.direction;
It is used to set the marquee direction property.
marqueeObject.direction = "up|down|left|right"
Note: This property is depreciated from HTML 5.
Property values:
- up: It sets the direction to upward.
- down: It sets the direction downward.
- left: It sets the direction to the left. It is a default value.
- right: It sets the direction to the right.
Return Value: It returns a string value representing the direction of a moving text.
Example 1: Below HTML code illustrates to access a marquee direction property.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<body style="text-align:center;">
<h1 style="color:green;">
GeeksforGeeks
</h1>
<h2>DOM Marquee direction Property</h2>
<marquee id="marqueeID" direction="up">
GeeksforGeeks:A computer Science Portal for Geeks
</marquee>
<br><br>
<button onclick="btnClick()">
Get direction of Marquee element
</button>
<p id="paraID"></p>
<script>
function btnClick() {
var txt = document.getElementById(
"marqueeID").direction;
document.getElementById(
"paraID").innerHTML = txt;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Example 2: Below HTML code illustrates how to change the direction of the marquee object.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<body style="text-align:center;">
<h1 style="color:green;">
GeeksforGeeks
</h1>
<h2>DOM Marquee direction property</h2>
<marquee id="marqueeID" direction="up">
GeeksforGeeks:A computer Science Portal for Geeks
</marquee>
<br><br>
<button onclick="btnClick()">
Change direction of Marquee element
</button>
<p id="paraID"></p>
<script>
function btnClick() {
var txt = document.getElementById(
"marqueeID").direction = "left";
document.getElementById(
"paraID").innerHTML = txt;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Output:
Supported Browsers are listed below:
- Google Chrome 1.0
- Edge 12.0
- Firefox 1.0
- Internet Explorer 2.0
- Opera 7.2
- Safari 1.2