var tWidth='535px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='25px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#1c5ca3';               // background colour:
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var tSpeed=2;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

// 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 cps=tSpeed; 
var aw, mq; 
var fsz = 10; 

function startticker()
{
	if (document.getElementById) {
		var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;color:white;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:sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:10px' + '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">'+unescape(__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;