Marquee
A marquee may refer to any of the following:
1. A marquee, marquee tool, or selection tool is a tool is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) tool that selects items within a rectangular shape. The user clicks the left mouse button, then drags a corner of the rectangle until it encompasses the items they want to select. It's called a "marquee" because its border resembles the flashing lights around the marquee sign of a theater. The image shows an example of how a rectangular marquee may look.
Advanced editing programs like Adobe Photoshop, offer other shapes like circles and ellipses.
Pressing M selects the move tool in Adobe Photoshop. Holding down the Shift while pressing M cycles through all move options.
2. With HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the <marquee> tag designates an area containing scrolling text.
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