var tWidth = '854px';                  	// width (in pixels)
var tHeight = '25px';                  	// height (in pixels)
var tcolour = '#666666';               	// background colour:
var moStop = true;                     	// pause on mouseover (true or false)
var tSpeed = 2;                        	// 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; 

/**
 * starts off the ticker
 * 
 * @param void
 * @return void
 */
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:7px; 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);
	}
	
} 

// -----------------------------------

/**
 * scrolls the ticker
 * 
 * @param void
 * @return void
 */
function scrollticker() {
	mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left) > (-10 - aw)) ? parseInt(mq.style.left) - cps + "px" : parseInt(tWidth) + 10 + "px";
} 

// -----------------------------------

window.onload = startticker;