var tWidth='600px';                  // width (in pixels)
//var tHeight='17px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tHeight='33px'; 
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
//var fontfamily = 'simHei, pMingLiu'; // font for content
var tSpeed=2;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)
var tDirectionIsLeft = true;         // start direction

// 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.';

// 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 = parseInt(tHeight) - 4; 
var fsz = 18; 
function startticker()
{
    if (document.getElementById('ticker') != null) 
    {
        content = document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML;
        var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;"';
        if (moStop) tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; 
        //alan 20100623 : to chg font size and color
	//tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;font-size:'+fsz+'px;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>'; 
	tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>'; 
        document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML = tick; 
        document.getElementById('ticker').style.display = "block";
        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);
    }
} 
function scrollticker()
{
    if (tDirectionIsLeft != false)
    {
        mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)>(-10 - aw)) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)-cps+"px" : parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";
    }
    else
    {
        mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)<parseInt(tWidth)+10) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)+cps+"px" : (-10 - aw)+"px";
    }
} 
//window.onload=startticker;