A band that keeps moving

Many designs carry a strip of short words that slides across the page: the clients served, the airports covered, the services on offer. Elementor has no widget for it, and until now a converted template kept that strip as a block of HTML: it moved, but nobody wanted to edit it.

Marquee band

T-Builder 0.9.17 ships the Marquee band as a widget of its own, under the "T-Builder elements" category. Its Content tab has an Items list, one line per item with an optional link, a Separator mark for the small picture between two items, and Motion: how long one loop takes, which way it runs, whether it pauses under the pointer. Visitors who asked their system for less motion see the items standing still, in rows. Its Style tab is one panel, Band: background, vertical padding, typography, text colour, gap between items, separator size and separator opacity.

Editor and front end render the same PHP, and a site with WPML translates the items one by one.

Converted, not pasted

A moving band in a template now converts into this widget. The items, the mark, the typeface and its tracking, the colours, the spacing and the speed are read off the design, so the Elementor panel shows "Marquee band" with a list of items where there used to be a wall of inline styles.

Travels with the theme

Every theme T-Builder builds carries the widget and its stylesheet. It registers itself only where the plugin is absent, so a page keeps its band when the theme stands on its own.

Update to 0.9.17 from your account, or let the plugin update itself.