var tWidth='515px';                  // width (in pixels)
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;

function startticker(){
  if (document.getElementById) {
    // add a div containing the text to display in the ticker named "tickerContent"
    var tickerText = document.getElementById("tickerContent");
    if (tickerText!=null && tickerText!="") {
      // 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.';

      var content =tickerText.innerHTML;
      var tick = '<div id ="tickerBox" style="width:' + tWidth + ';"><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>';
      document.getElementById('tickerContainer').innerHTML = tick;
      mq = document.getElementById("mq");
      mq.style.left=(parseInt(tWidth)+10)+"px";
      var mqInner='<span id="tx"';
      if (moStop)
         mqInner += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"';
      mqInner += '>'+content+'<\/span>';
      mq.innerHTML = mqInner;
      aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth;
      var lefttime=setInterval("scrollticker()",20);
    }
  }
}

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