You can achieve a marquee effect using purely CSS
Demo Fiddle (Horizontal) (Vertical)
HTML
<p class="marquee">text text text text text</p>
CSS
.marquee {
width: 450px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
box-sizing: border-box;
animation: marquee 4s linear infinite;
}
.marquee:hover {
animation-play-state: paused
}
@keyframes marquee {
0% {
text-indent: 27.5em
}
100% {
text-indent: -10em
}
}