A marquee may refer to any of the following:

  1. A marquee tool is a GUI 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.

  2. When referring to HTML, the tag is used to designate an area containing scrolling text.

    Advanced editing programs, such as 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.

    • How to use each of the Adobe Photoshop tools.

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