var tWidth='500px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='15px';                  // height (in pixels)


//var tcolour='#ffffcc';               // background colour: yellow
var tcolour='#ffffff';               // background colour: white

//var tfcolour='#015699';              // foreground colour: blue
var tfcolour='#ff0000';              // foreground colour: red
//var tfcolour='#ffffff';              // foreground colour: white
//var tfcolour='#17754e';              // foreground colour: green

var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'arial,sans-serif'; // font for content
var tSpeed=2;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

//'#ffffff'                          //white
//'#000000'                          //black
//'#ff0000'                          //red
//'#ffffcc'                          //yellow
//'#015699'                          //blue
//'#17754e'                          //green    
//'#a2a2a2'                          //gray
//'#505050'                          //dark gray


// 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.             Primary Day voting begins at Noon and ends at 9:00 p.m.   123456789012345678901234567890';

//var content='<b>Beat the Heat!  Come to the Elm Avenue Park pool.  Remember to renew your resident pool pass first.<\/b>';


var content=' ';

//************************************************************************************************
//To completely white out the ticker, uncomment the following 3 lines:
//var tcolour='#ffffff';               // background colour: white
//var tfcolour='#ffffff';              // foreground colour: white
//var content=''
//These values will overwrite any values already in those variables
//Another possibility is to comment out the call to the ticker at the bottom of the code
//Comment out window.onload=startticker;
//************************************************************************************************




// 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; 

function startticker()
{
if (document.getElementById) {
var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:' + tWidth + ';color:' + tfcolour + ';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; 
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()
{
mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)>(-10 - aw)) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)-cps+"px" : parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";
} 

window.onload=startticker;