How do I stop my scrolling text from floating out of the text-border

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I created a scrolling text using marquee but when I add more code or text it flows out of the text box I tried but i couldnt figure out the problem or is there a limit of text that marquee tag can handle?
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What I have tried:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>
   
<style>
.soon
{display: flex;
justify-content:center;
 
align-items:center;

	
   Background-color:black;
   Padding:50px;
   color:white ;

   width:240px;
   height:50px;
	border-style: double;
   border-color: #080dab;
	border-width: 5px;
   width: 250px;
   height: 100px;
	

}
</style>
</head>
<div class='soon'><p> <span style="font-size :20px; color: yellow ;white-space: nowrap;"><marquee scrollamount="3" direction="up">coming soon </span> <br/>this site is under maintenance by a full stack developer <span style="font-size :15px; color: green ; ">Ambrose!</span> </br> <br> SKILLS 
  <hr> 
  <ul>
    <li>html</li>
    <li>css</li>
    <li>javascript</li>
    <li>sql</li>
    <li>bootstrap</li>
    <li>node.js/Express.js</li>
    </ul>
  CONTACT <HR>
  ambrussio@gmail.com
  
 </marquee></div></html>
<body>

</body>
<html>

Posted 21-Jan-22 23:04pm

Ambrose 2022

Updated 22-Jan-22 12:52pm

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Richard Deeming 24-Jan-22 8:32am

NB: The <marquee> element is deprecated, and should not be used in any new development.

<marquee>: The Marquee element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN[^]

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Luc Pattyn · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-22T12:52:00

Solution 1

Hi,

you want overflow: hidden in .soon

see CSS Overflow[^]

:)

Posted 22-Jan-22 12:52pm

Luc Pattyn