How to Create a Simple Text Marquee with Divi

Text marquees provide a scrolling area of text to your website that engage readers with useful snippets of content.They are also called tickers (or news tickers) and are often used to show a steady stream of news updates at the top or bottom of a page. Usually the scrolling animation is done with a single line of content in a loop so that the information is displayed repeatedly. Unfortunately, the html <marquee> tag is obsolete so we are counting on CSS and JavaScript to create marquees these days. However, with Divi, you can create a simple marquee without having to worry about custom code.

In this tutorial, we will walk you through how easy it is to create a simple text marquee with Divi. We will even cover how to pause the scrolling text animation on hover and how to add a large text marquee as a unique design element for your headers.

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What You Need to Get Started

To get started, you will need to have the following:

1. The Divi Theme installed and active
2. A new page created to build from scratch on the front end (visual builder)

After that, you will have a blank canvas to start designing in Divi.

Part 1: Creating a Simple Text Marquee in Divi

For this first example, we are going to create a simple text marquee for a line of text. To do this, we’ll give a row a max width with the overflow hidden. Then we will add a looping slide animation to a text module containing the line of text so that it slides across the row repeatedly coming into view like a marquee.

Here’s how to do it.

First, create a regular section with a one column row.

Then, before adding a module, update the row with a fixed width, a box shadow and a border radius as follows:

• Max Width: 200px
• Padding: 10px top, 10px bottom
• Round Corners: 10px
• Box Shadow: see screenshot
• Horizontal Overflow: Hidden
• Vertical Overflow: Hidden

Add the Text Module

Once the row is finished, add a new text module to the row.

Then update the body content with a single line of text. For now make sure the line of text doesn’t break into another line.

• Body: “This is a sentence”

Text Module Design

Update the text module design settings as follows:

• Margin: -100% left, 100% right

This positions the text module outside the left of the row. Because the row has overflow visibility hidden, the module will be hidden until we add animation to bring it into view.

• Animation Style: Slide
• Animation Direction: Right
• Animation Duration: 5000ms
• Animation Intensity: 100%
• Animation Starting Opacity: 100%
• Animation Speed Curve: Linear
• Animation Repeat: Loop

Result

Now let’s check out the result.

Creating Longer Lines of Text

In the simple text marquee design above, we have limited the width of the line of text to the same width of the row. However, if we want to create a longer line of text with the same row width, we will need to modify the settings a bit.

First, on the text module and replace the body text with the following:

<p>This is a sentence in a marquee with a <a href="#">link</a></p>

Add More Width and Margin to Accommodate for the Longer Line of Text

As you may notice, the text is now breaking into three lines instead of one.

Therefore, we need to adjust the margin and animation intensity.

• Width: 207%
• Margin: -207% left, 207% right
• Animation Intensity: 75%

The trick here is to increase the width and update the margin values so that you provide just enough room for the single line of text. Then adjust the animation intensity so that there isn’t a big break in between the looping animation.

Result

Here is the final result.

Pausing the Marquee Text Animation on Hover

Since this marquee includes a link, it will be difficult for users to actually click the link while it is moving. However, we can add a small snippet of css to the text module that will pause the animation on hover.

Add a CSS Snippet to Pause the Animation on Hover

To add the css snippet, open the text module settings and add the following custom CSS to the main element under the hover tab:

animation-play-state: paused;

Final Result

Now check out the final result. Notice how the text animation will pause when the cursor hovers over the text, allowing the user to click the link.

Part 2: Creating a Text Marquee as a Responsive Design Element in Divi

Now that we understand how to create a simple text marquee in Divi, we can take the same concept to create a responsive text marquee design element. This would work well to create unique animation designs for headers or section headings.

To do this we are going to use Divi’s Job Recruiter Home Page premade layout.

Add the Premade Layout

To add the layout to your page, open the settings menu at the bottom of the Divi builder and click the plus symbol. From the load from library popup, select the job recruiter layout pack. Then click to use the home page layout.

Delete Extra Content with the Layout

Once the layout has been loaded to the page, deploy the wireframe view mode and delete all the content of the layout except for the fullwidth header and the section directly below it.

Creating the Text Marquee Animation

As you can see, the word “hired” is already be used as a large text design element in a text module in the second section. We are going to turn that text module into a responsive text marquee design element. The key to make the text marquee responsive is to make sure the row and text module span the full width of the browser window. We can do this using a width of 100%. Then we can use the vw length unit for the text size. This will make the text scale nicely with the browser widths. After that we will apply the same principles that we used to make our simple text marquee example earlier.

Here’s how to do it.

Update the Row Settings

As mentioned before, the row needs to be 100% for this responsive text marquee design to work. This allows our text module to use vw length units which are relative to the width of the browser. Since our premade layout already has a row with 100% width, we don’t have to do anything.

However, we do need to adjust the rest of the settings as follows.

• Margin: -24vw bottom
• Transform Translate Y axis: -24vw
• Horizontal Overflow: Hidden
• Vertical Overflow: Hidden

The negative bottom margin is to get rid of the negative space left over whenever we move the row up using transform translate. And we need to hide the overflow of the row for our text marquee effect.

Update Text Module Text Design

Now all you need to do us update the text module to convert it into a large text marquee design element.

Open the text module and update the following:

• Text Text Color: rgba(255,255,255,0.16)
• Text Text Size: 36vw
• Margin: -100% left, 100% right

The text size is using a vw length unit so the text will scale nicely with the width of the browser.

Add Animation to the Text Module

• Animation Style: Slide
• Animation Direction: Left
• Animation Duration: 10000ms
• Animation Intensity: 100%
• Animation Speed Curve: Linear
• Animation Repeat: Loop

Final Design

Now check out the final design.

Final Thoughts

Text marquees can be a convenient tool to have in web design. They aren’t limited to function strictly as news tickers either. They can also add a nice animation element to your web design. And the best part is that Divi makes it easy to create and design them in all kinds of beautiful ways. I hope this tutorial will help you create some simple text marquees whenever the time comes that you need one.

I look forward to hearing from you in the comments.

Cheers!