var tWidth='100%';                    // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='18px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='transparent';               // background colour:
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'veranda, arial, helvetica'; // font for content
var tSpeed=1;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

// enter your ticker content here (use \/ and \' in place of / and ' respectively)
var content=document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;

// 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 = parseFloat(tHeight) - 4;

function startticker(){
	if (document.getElementById) {
		var tick = '<div style="float:right;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-weight:bold;color:#4F4F4F;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>'; 
		document.getElementById('TICKER').innerHTML = tick; 
		mq = document.getElementById("mq"); 
		mq.style.left=(parseFloat(getElementWidth("TICKER"))+10)+"px"; 
		mq.innerHTML='<span id="tx">'+content+'<\/span>'; 
		aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth; 
		lefttime=setInterval("scrollticker()",20);
	}
}

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

function getElementWidth(Elem) {
	if(document.getElementById) {
		var elem = document.getElementById(Elem);
	} else if (document.all){
		var elem = document.all[Elem];
	}
	var xPos = elem.offsetWidth;
	return xPos;
}


window.onload=startticker;