Marquee

A single-line strip of text and small images that scrolls steadily to the left and loops forever. It’s the ticker band — a handful of short claims (“Free shipping”, “Drug-free”, “Since 1997”) separated by icons, running under a hero or above the footer.

The contents are built from two block types, Marquee Text and Marquee Image, which you interleave in whatever order you want. The section duplicates whatever you’ve added three times behind the scenes so the loop never shows a gap — you only ever enter the sequence once.

The band itself is transparent and has no padding controls. It takes the background and text colour of whatever it’s sitting on.

Settings

Setting	What it does
Section ID	Optional anchor, so a link elsewhere on the page can jump here. Must be unique on the page and written in handle format.
Hide marquee	Has no effect. See the caution below.
Marquee Speed	How long one full pass of the strip takes, written as a number of seconds with an s on the end — 20s, 45s. Default 30s. Higher is slower.

Hide marquee doesn’t hide anything

The Hide marquee checkbox is left over from an earlier version and is no longer wired to anything — ticking it changes nothing on the page. To remove the strip, hide or delete the section itself in the theme editor.

Marquee Speed needs the “s”

The field is free text, not a slider, and the value goes straight into the animation. 20s works; 20 on its own is invalid and the animation stops running — the strip freezes in place. Always include the unit.

Blocks

Add as many of each as you like, in any order. They render in a single line in the order listed.

Marquee Text

Setting	What it does
Text	The phrase. Default “Your text here”.
Text Color	Leave blank — the default — to inherit the colour of the section it sits on.
Font Size	Small, Base, Large (default), XL or 2XL.
Font Weight	Light, Normal (default), Medium, Semibold or Bold.

Marquee Image

Setting	What it does
Image	The image, rendered in a square that grows from roughly 44px on mobile to 70px on desktop.
Alt Text	Describes the image. Falls back to the alt text saved on the file itself.
Max Width (px)	Has no effect — the size comes from the section’s own layout.
Max Height (px)	Has no effect.
Image Fit	Has no effect — images are always fitted whole inside their square.

Three settings on Marquee Image do nothing

Max Width, Max Height and Image Fit are all leftovers. The image is always sized by the section and always fitted whole inside its square. To make a mark appear larger or smaller relative to its neighbours, crop the whitespace out of the file and re-upload.

Accessibility

The whole strip is hidden from screen readers. That’s deliberate — a phrase repeated three times and read out mid-scroll is noise, not content.

Never put information here that only appears here

Because assistive technology skips the strip entirely, anything in it is invisible to some visitors. Treat it as decoration that reinforces claims made properly elsewhere on the page. A shipping threshold, a discount code or a disclaimer must not live only in the marquee.

The scroll doesn’t stop for reduced motion

The animation runs continuously and doesn’t respond to a visitor’s “reduce motion” system setting, and there’s no pause control. Continuous movement is uncomfortable for some people, so keep the strip short and the speed gentle — and don’t place it beside anything that needs careful reading.

Where it’s used

The marquee isn’t currently placed in any template. It’s available in the section picker for any page, and can be added to the footer group.

The footer marquee is hidden on the homepage

If a marquee is added to the footer section group, it’s deliberately hidden on the homepage while still showing on every other page. On the homepage the strip would land too close to other content above the footer. If you add one there and it doesn’t appear on the homepage, that’s why — not a fault.

Tips

• Keep phrases to three or four words. A long sentence takes most of a screen width and the strip stops reading as a ticker.
• Alternate text and image. Text, icon, text, icon is what makes the loop look intentional. Two phrases in a row run together with nothing to separate them.
• Six to eight items is about right. Too few and the repeat is obvious — the same phrase comes back around before the first one has left. Too many and a visitor never sees the whole set.
• Slow it down rather than speeding it up. 30s is already brisk. If phrases feel hard to catch, try 45s.
• Set the sizes on the blocks, not the section. There’s no section-wide type size — each Marquee Text carries its own. Give them all the same Font Size and Font Weight unless you’re deliberately emphasising one.
• Leave Text Color blank. The strip is designed to sit on other sections and inherit their colour. A fixed colour will fail as soon as it’s placed on a darker band.