var tWidth = '876px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight = '20px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour = 'transparent';               // background colour:
var moStop = true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'arial,sans-serif'; // font for content
var tSpeed = 3;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

// 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) - 4;

function startticker(){
	
	if (document.getElementById) {
		
		content = document.getElementById("ticker").innerHTML;
		
		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: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; 
		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;