10 Best Marquee-like Content Scrolling Plugins In JavaScript (2025 Update)

What Is Marquee Element?

The <Marquee> tag is a deprecated (non-standard) HTML element that was once widely used to create compelling scrolling elements (e.g. news/stock ticker, text/image scroller, etc) in tranditional websites.

With the development of HTML and CSS technology, the Marquee element is Obsolete and has been deprecated in HTML5.

Marquee Replacement?

In modern front-end development, developers can use CSS3 and JcavaScript to achieve this requirement.

This is why I list here the 10 best JavaScript/jQuery plugins to implement the marquee-like content scrolling effects on the modern web app. Enjoy.

Originally Published Oct 24, 2019, updated Feb 16 2024

Table of contents:

• jQuery Marquee-like Content Scrolling Plugins
• Vanilla Marquee-like Content Scrolling Libraries
• Bonus: Pure CSS Marquee-like Content Scrolling

jQuery Marquee-like Content Scrolling Plugins:

Text Scrolling Plugin for jQuery - Marquee

Marquee.js is an alternative to marquee tag, which is an old and non-standard HTML element, that causes text/image/element to scroll up, down, left or right automatically.

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Smooth Horizontal Text Scroller - jQuery eocjsNewsticker

An easy yet configurable jQuery news ticker plugin which smoothly, horizontally, and infinitely scrolls through text blocks at a given speed.

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Responsive Scroll-Triggered Marquee Carousel In jQuery

The Marquee Slider jQuery plugin provides a smooth horizontal scrolling marquee effect that responds to user scrolling. Similar to the traditional <marquee> tag, it automatically scrolls slide items left or right when users scroll up or down the page. Developers can control the scroll speed and repeat items using the sensitivity and repeatItems options.

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jQuery Plugin For Horizontal Text Scrolling - Simple Marquee

A simple jQuery plugin which makes a list of items scroll from right to left similar to the traditional marquee tag, with a few options for speed, additional classes and pause on hover.

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Seamless Content Scrolling With jQuery Marquee.js

A tiny jQuery plugin that allows you to implement infinite horizontal or vertical scrolling for HTML lists.

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Vanilla JS Marquee-like Content Scrolling Libraries:

Scroll Text Infinitely – text-roller

A lightweight JavaScript to create a text scroller/carousel that allows you to scroll text infinitely in the horizontal direction.

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Smooth Marquee-like Scroller With Pure JavaScript – Marquee3000

Marquee3000 is a small, performant JavaScript scroller library which applies a smooth, configurable scrolling effect to any html content just like the obsolete <marquee> tag.

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Display RSS Feeds As A Horizontal Scroller – rss-marquee

A vanilla JavaScript library to display RSS feeds as a marquee-like horizontal scroller.

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Marquee Like Horizontal Scroller with Pure JavaScript – marquee.js

marquee.js is a lightweight JavaScript library which allows to scroll horizontally and infinitely through html elements like the traditional marquee element.

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Simple Marquee Like Content Scrolling In Vanilla JavaScript

A vanilla JavaScript-powered marquee replacement that applies a smooth, configurable, horizontal/vertical scrolling animation to any content.

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Bonus: Pure CSS Marquee-like Content Scrolling

Smooth Scroller With Pure CSS/CSS3 – Ultimate Marquee

A smooth scrolling, CSS-only horizontal scroller that behaves like the traditional marquee element without all the extra markup, JavaScript, and images.

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Responsive Text Scrolling Effect – Pure CSS Marquee

The Pure CSS Marquee uses CSS3 transforms and container queries to create a responsive and elegant scrolling effect for text that exceeds the width of its container. Supports for scrolling in both left and right directions.

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Conclusion:

Want more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome Marquee-like Content Scrolling Effects on the web & mobile? Check out the jQuery Marquee and JavaScript/CSS Marquee sections.

See Also:

• 10 Best News Ticker Plugins
• 10 Best Text Rotators
• 10 Best Text Typing Animations
• 10 Best Text Animation Plugins In JavaScript/jQuery
• 10 Best Typewriter Text Animation JavaScript Libraries