HTML DOM Marquee bgColor Property

The HTML DOM Marquee bgColor property is used to set or return the value of the bgcolor attribute of the <marquee> tag. 

Syntax

It returns the marquee bgColor property.

marqueeObject.bgColor;

It sets the marquee bgColor Property.

marqueeObject.bgColor="colorname/hex_number"

Property values

  • color_name: It sets the background color by using the color name. For example “red”.
    hex_number: It sets the background color by using the color hex code. For example “#0000ff”.

Note: The HTML Marquee bgcolor attribute is not supported by HTML5.

Example 1: Below HTML code returns the Marquee bgcolor property. 

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>
        DOM Marquee bgColor Property
    </title>
</head>

<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h2>DOM Marquee bgColor Property</h2>

    <marquee id="marqueeID" direction="right" 
        behavior="slide" loop="3" bgcolor="green">
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    </marquee>
    <br><br>

    <button onclick="btnClick()">
        Return background color of Marquee tag
    </button>

    <p id="paraID"></p>

    <script>
        function btnClick() {
            let txt = document.getElementById("marqueeID").bgColor;
            document.getElementById("paraID").innerHTML = txt;
        }
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Output

Example 2: Below HTML code sets the Marquee bgColor property. 

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>
        DOM Marquee bgColor Property
    </title>
</head>

<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h2>DOM Marquee bgColor Property</h2>

    <marquee id="marqueeID" direction="right" 
        behavior="slide" loop="3" bgcolor="green">
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    </marquee>
    <br><br>

    <button onclick="btnClick()">
        Change Background Color of Marquee Tag
    </button>

    <p id="paraID"></p>

    <script>
        function btnClick() {
            let txt = document.getElementById("marqueeID")
                .bgColor = "dodgerblue";
            document.getElementById("paraID").innerHTML = txt;
        }
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Output

Supported Browsers

  • Chrome 1
  • Edge 12
  • Firefox 65
  • Opera 7.2
  • Safari 1.2 


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