Infinite-Scrolling Logos In Flat HTML And Pure CSS
Silvestar Bistrović is a fearless web engineer, CSS developer, JAMstack enthusiast, WordPress theme specialist, author of the UI Dev Newsletter, and founder of … More about Silvestar ↬
When I was asked to make an auto-scrolling logo farm, I had to ask myself: “You mean, like a <marquee>?” It’s not the weirdest request, but the thought of a <marquee> conjures up the “old” web days when Geocities ruled. What was next, a repeating sparkling unicorn GIF background?
If you’re tempted to reach for the <marquee> element, don’t. MDN has a stern warning about it right at the top of the page:
That’s fine because whatever infinite scrolling feature <marquee> is offered, we can most certainly pull off in CSS. But when I researched examples to help guide me, I was surprised to find very little on it. Maybe auto-scrolling elements aren’t the rage these days. Perhaps the sheer nature of auto-scrolling behavior is enough of an accessibility red flag to scare us off.
Whatever the case, we have the tools to do this, and I wanted to share how I went about it. This is one of those things that can be done in lots of different ways, leveraging lots of different CSS features. Even though I am not going to exhaustively explore all of them, I think it’s neat to see someone else’s thought process, and that’s what you’re going to get from me in this article.
