var tWidth='560px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='20px';                  // height (in pixels)
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)

// 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 content=document.getElementById("shoutbox_content").innerHTML;
    document.getElementById("shoutbox_content").innerHTML = "";
    var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;"';
    if (moStop) tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"';
    tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;white-space:nowrap;" class="ticker"><\/div><\/div>';
    document.getElementById('shoutbox_content').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()",25);
  }
}

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

function tickerSpeedDown() {
  if (cps>1) cps-=0.5;
}

function tickerSpeedUp() {
  if (cps<5) cps+=0.5;
}