react-fast-marquee

What is react-fast-marquee?

react-fast-marquee is a React component that allows you to create scrolling text or images, also known as a marquee. It is designed to be highly customizable and performant, making it easy to add scrolling content to your React applications.

What are react-fast-marquee's main functionalities?

Basic Marquee

This feature allows you to create a basic scrolling text marquee. The text will scroll from right to left by default.

<Marquee>Some scrolling text</Marquee>

Custom Speed

You can customize the speed of the scrolling text by setting the 'speed' prop. The higher the number, the faster the text will scroll.

<Marquee speed={50}>Faster scrolling text</Marquee>

Direction Control

This feature allows you to change the direction of the scrolling text. By setting the 'direction' prop to 'right', the text will scroll from left to right.

<Marquee direction='right'>Scrolling text to the right</Marquee>

Pause on Hover

You can make the marquee pause when the user hovers over it by setting the 'pauseOnHover' prop to true.

<Marquee pauseOnHover={true}>Hover to pause scrolling</Marquee>

Gradient Effect

This feature adds a gradient effect to the edges of the marquee, giving it a more polished look. You can enable this by setting the 'gradient' prop to true.

<Marquee gradient={true}>Scrolling text with gradient</Marquee>

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README

React Fast Marquee

React Fast Marquee is a lightweight React component that utilizes the power of CSS animations to create silky smooth marquees.

Demo

Check out the demo here and play around with some sample marquees.

Installation

If you're using npm, in the command prompt run:

npm install react-fast-marquee --save

If you're using yarn, run:

yarn add react-fast-marquee

Usage

To use the component, first import Marquee into your file:

import Marquee from "react-fast-marquee";

Then wrap the <Marquee> tags around any component or text you'd like to slide.

<Marquee>
  I can be a React component, multiple React components, or just some text.
</Marquee>

A sample file might look like this:

import React from "react";
import MyComponent from "../components/MyComponent";
import Marquee from "react-fast-marquee";

const App = () => (
  <Marquee>
    <MyComponent />
    <MyComponent />
    <MyComponent />
  </Marquee>
);

export default App;

Props

Property	Type	Default	Description
style	object	{}	Inline style for the container div
className	string	""	Name of the css class to style the container div
play	boolean	true	Whether to play or pause the marquee
pauseOnHover	boolean	false	Whether to pause the marquee when hovered
pauseOnClick	boolean	false	Whether to pause the marquee when clicked
direction	"left" or "right"	"left"	The direction the marquee is sliding
speed	number	20	Speed calculated as pixels/second
delay	number	0	Duration to delay the animation after render, in seconds
gradient	boolean	true	Whether to show the gradient or not
gradientColor	Array<number> of length 3	[255, 255, 255]	The rgb color of the gradient as an array of length 3
gradientWidth	number or string	200	The width of the gradient on either side
children	ReactNode	null	The children rendered inside the marquee