Create a Text Marquee
Make a classic bordered marquee that scrolls or bounces your text. Runs entirely in your browser, so your data never leaves your device.
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Output
The result appears here as you type.
How to use Create a Text Marquee
- 1. Type or paste your message. Enter the short message you want inside the bordered marquee box, such as a welcome message or a limited-time notice.
- 2. Choose Behavior and Loop seconds. Pick Scroll (loop) for the classic continuous marquee crawl, or Alternate (bounce) to have the text bounce back and forth. Loop seconds sets how long one cycle takes.
- 3. Set Font size, colors and Border. Adjust Font size for legibility, then choose Text color, Background and Border to give the box a distinct frame around the moving text.
- 4. Review the animated marquee. The output panel renders an animated, bordered marquee SVG using your settings. Tweak any option to see the effect update immediately.
When to use Create a Text Marquee
Create a Text Marquee builds a classic bordered box that scrolls or bounces your message, in the style of old HTML marquee tags. Use it whenever you want that nostalgic moving-text-in-a-box effect without the deprecated markup.
- Recreating a 90s-style webpage element. You're building a retro or nostalgia-themed website and want an authentic bouncing marquee like the ones from early web pages. Choose Alternate (bounce) and a bright border color.
- Highlighting a limited-time offer. An online store wants a small attention-grabbing box that scrolls a promo message across a banner area. Use Scroll (loop) with a fast loop time to draw the eye.
- Adding a fun element to a personal site. A personal blog or portfolio wants a playful bordered marquee greeting visitors on the homepage. Set custom colors to match the site's theme and drop in the resulting SVG.
Examples
Bounce a message in a box
Input
Welcome!
Output
An animated bordered marquee SVG (shown in the output panel)
About the Create a Text Marquee tool
Create a Text Marquee is a free online tool that works entirely inside your web browser. Make a classic bordered marquee that scrolls or bounces your text. Because the processing happens on your own device, nothing you enter is uploaded, logged or stored anywhere.
This page is one of 211 Text utilities on EditSafely. Each one does a single job well, and all of them follow the same rule: your input stays on your machine.
You can shape the output with 6 settings, including Behavior, Loop seconds, Font size and Text color, and the result refreshes the moment you change one. A worked example further down the page shows exactly what the tool produces for a real input.
Because nothing leaves your device, the tool is suitable for sensitive content such as internal documents, credentials or customer data. It also responds instantly, since every keystroke is handled on your own machine rather than by a remote API.
Frequently asked questions
Does Create a Text Marquee cost anything?
Yes, it is completely free. All 2,658 tools on EditSafely work without an account, a subscription or usage limits.
Is it safe to paste sensitive or confidential data?
No data leaves your device. The whole tool is JavaScript that runs inside your browser tab, so there is no upload, no server-side processing and no log of what you did. If you disconnect from the internet after the page loads, it keeps working.
How much text can I process at once?
There is no fixed limit. Because the work happens on your own device rather than on a shared server, the practical ceiling is your machine's memory, which comfortably handles inputs far larger than typical online tools allow.
Do I need to sign up or install anything?
Nothing to install and no account needed. Open the page in any up-to-date browser, including on a phone or tablet, and the tool is ready.
Can I save what the tool produces?
Yes. Use the download or copy controls in the output panel to keep the rendered result once it looks the way you want.