CSS marquee-play-count
The CSS marquee-play-count property is used for specifying the number of iterations - or loops - that a marquee performs before it stops playing. For example, you could make the marquee run once, twice, three times, or as many as you like. You can also specify infinite, which makes it run forever (or until the user agent/browser stops it).
The marquee-play-count property works in conjunction with the overflow, overflow-style, marquee-direction, marquee-speed, and marquee-style properties.
What is a Marquee?
A marquee is an effect where the content within an HTML element moves - or "scrolls" - (either horizontally or vertically) so that eventually, all content has been displayed at least once. The content can keep scrolling or it can stop after a certain number of times. It can slide in and stop. It can bounce back and forth - either once or a pre-determined number of times.
How Do Marquees Work in CSS?
In CSS3, marquees work like this:
If the contents of an element are too large to fit inside the element, it is said to "overflow". The overflow property can be used to hide the parts that don't fit inside the box. Now the overflow-style property can be used to specify that a marquee should be used to display the content (a marquee-line for horizontally scrolling marquees and marquee-block for vertically scrolling marquees). The marquee-play-count property specifies how many iterations the marquee should play before stopping.
Note that at the time of writing, browser support for CSS3 marquees is limited. Therefore, the examples on this page may not work as expected (at least until browsers start to support this property).
Also, this property is still under development by the W3C, which means that it may change at any time.
| Syntax: |
marquee-play-count: value
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| Example |
marquee-play-count: 6;
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| Possible Values: |
The value can be one of the following.
Note that according to the CSS3 specification, the user agent/browser can stop a marquee after 16 loops - even if the specified value is |
| Initial Value: | 1
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| Applies to: | Non-replaced block-level elements and non-replaced 'inline-block' elements |
| Inherited: | No |
| Media: | Visual |
Browser Compatibility
At the time of writing, CSS3 was still under development and browser support for many CSS3 properties was limited or non-existent. For maximum browser compatibility many web developers add browser-specific properties by using extensions such as -webkit- for Safari and Google Chrome, -ms- for Internet Explorer, -moz- for Firefox, -o- for Opera etc. As with any CSS property, if a browser doesn't support a proprietary extension, it will simply ignore it.
This practice is not recommended by the W3C, however in many cases, the only way you can test a property is to include the CSS extension that is compatible with your browser.
Be aware that if you choose to use the proprietary CSS extensions in a live environment, your code will not pass any W3C CSS validation, as the browser-specific properties are not valid W3C properties.
Many of the CSS3 examples on this website include these browser specific properties. If they weren't included, most of the examples wouldn't work for most users (at least, not until possibly years after the article was written).
The major browser manufacturers are working to support the W3C properties, and eventually, you will be able to omit these browser-specific properties.