var tWidth='711px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='18px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#000000';               // background colour:
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'arial,sans-serif'; // font for content
var tSpeed=3; 
var textcolor='#adadad';// scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)
var resetVal = false;
// 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 = parseInt(tHeight) - 5; 
function startticker(content){if (document.getElementById) {
	var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;color:'+textcolor+';background-color:'+tcolour+'"'; if (moStop) tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;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='<span id="tx">'+content+'<\/span>'; 
	aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth; 
	runner();
	//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";
} 
function runner(){
	if(resetVal){
		clearInterval(lefttime);
	}
	lefttime=setInterval("scrollticker()",50);
	resetVal = true;
}

//window.onload=startticker;