var tWidth='973px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='25px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#BAD9E6';               // 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)
var content=document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
var cps=-tSpeed; 
var aw, mq; 
var fsz = parseInt(tHeight) - 4;

startticker();


 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; 
 document.getElementById("TICKER").style.display="block";
 mq = document.getElementById("mq");
 mq.style.left=(10+parseInt(tWidth))+"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)) ?
mq.style.left = parseInt(mq.style.left)+cps+"px": parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";}     
