var tWidth='630px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='22px';                  // height (in pixels)
//var tcolour='#ffffcc';               // background colour:
var tcolour='#EFEFEF';               // background colour:
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif'; // font for content
var tSpeed=2;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)


// enter your ticker content here (use \/ and \' in place of / and ' respectively)
//var content='Are you looking for loads of useful information <a href="http:\/\/javascript.about.com\/">About Javascript<\/a>? Well now you\'ve found it.';

// Simple Marquee / Ticker Script
// copyright 3rd January 2006, Stephen Chapman
// permission to use this Javascript on your web page is granted
// provided that all of the below code in this script (including this
// comment) is used without any alteration
var cps=tSpeed; 
var aw, mq; 
var fsz = 11; 

function startticker(){
	if (document.getElementById) 
	{
		var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;background-color:'+tcolour+'"'; 
		if (moStop) tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; 
		tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:5px;font-family:'+fontfamily+';font-size:'+fsz+'px;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>'; 

		document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML = tick;
		mq = document.getElementById("mq"); 
		mq.style.left=(parseInt(tWidth)+10)+"px"; 
		mq.innerHTML='<div id="tx">'+content+'<\/div>'; 
		aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth; 
		lefttime=setInterval("scrollticker()",50);
	}
} 

function scrollticker(){
	mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)>(-10 - aw)) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)-cps+"px" : parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";
} 

window.onload=startticker;