var tWidth='300px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='25px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#ffffcc';               // 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)

// enter your ticker content here (use \/ and \' in place of / and ' respectively)
var content='This is the content variable ...';

// 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) {
    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";
}