Feature
Scrolling reviews marquee
Two rows of review cards drifting quietly in opposite directions — the layout you see across the top of modern SaaS home pages. It shows a lot of reviews in a short strip of page, it keeps moving so it never looks stale, and it stops the instant someone wants to read one.
Last reviewed by the Reviews Widget product team.
How it works
Choose Scrolling marquee as the layout, pick one or two rows and a speed, then paste the same one-line embed you would use for any other layout. Your reviews loop seamlessly, drawn from every connected platform across all 17 sources.
Cards are duplicated behind the scenes so the loop never shows a gap, and the two rows run on independent tracks — the first row's direction is yours to set, the second takes the opposite. Each card carries the reviewer, their stars, the review text and the platform badge, and links back to the original review.
What you can control
| Setting | What you can change |
|---|---|
| Rows | One row for a slim strip, or two rows travelling in opposite directions. |
| Direction | Whether the first row scrolls left or right; the second row mirrors it. |
| Speed | How long a full loop takes — slower reads as considered, faster as busy. |
| Card width | Small, medium or large cards, plus how many fill each row. |
| Card height | Compact, standard, tall or auto — the fixed options keep every card the same height for a balanced band. |
| Pause on hover | Stop both rows while a visitor's cursor is over them. |
| Edge fade | Soften the left and right edges so cards fade out rather than clip. |
| AI summary | Scroll your generated summary as the first card in the first row. |
Where a marquee works best
- Full-width bands between sections. A marquee fills the awkward strip between a hero and a features block better than a three-card grid.
- Home pages with a lot of reviews. The more reviews you have, the more a moving band beats a static row of three.
- Not inside narrow columns. In a sidebar, use list or carousel instead — a marquee needs width to look deliberate.
- Not stacked with other motion. A marquee plus review popups on the same screen is too much movement at once.
Motion that behaves itself
Automatically moving content is an accessibility risk when a visitor can't stop it. The marquee pauses on hover, and anyone whose device asks for reduced motion gets a still, swipeable row of the same cards — no animation at all. The band reserves its height before the reviews load, so it never pushes the rest of your page around.
Sources & further reading
- W3C — WCAG 2.2 quick reference (Pause, Stop, Hide) — requirements for moving content that starts automatically
- web.dev — Cumulative Layout Shift — why the marquee reserves its row height before the reviews load
- MDN — prefers-reduced-motion — the device setting that turns the animation off automatically