Ticker Band

A headline with a band underneath it that scrolls sideways and does not stop. Use it for the things you would otherwise set in a row: services, the towns you deliver to, the materials you stock, the names on the shelf.

It runs on duplicated content and a CSS transform, so the movement stays on the compositor and never touches layout. Speed is set in seconds per pass, direction goes either way, and hover-pause is a toggle. Text items and logo images sit in the same band, and there is a second band running the opposite way if you want the crossed pair. The duplicated run is hidden from screen readers so nothing gets read twice.

Good for a supplier, a distributor, or a studio with a long list of its own to show. It is wrong if that list has three items, because a marquee with three items reads as an empty shelf. It is also wrong if the items need to be read carefully rather than glanced at — anything moving gets skipped.