Gian Carlo Mingati has made life particularly easy for you if you are in search for a simple to implement, yet powerful and customizable side-scrolling (in other words horizontal) news ticker widget.
His liScroll jQuery plugin takes any old unordered (ul) list with a unique ID and transforms it into a simple side-scrolling news ticker that has a variable speed control and also actually pauses on mouseover events, making navigation from the bar particularly easy.
To use his creation, simply do the following:
First create your necessary markup, e.g.:
<ul id="ticker01"> <li><span>10/10/2007</span><a href="#">The first thing ...</a></li> <li><span>10/10/2007</span><a href="#">End up doing is ...</a></li> <li><span>10/10/2007</span><a href="#">The code that you ...</a></li> </ul>
Next, apply the jQuery magic to it:
$(function(){ $("ul#ticker01").liScroll(); });
That’s it, all done. And if you want to control the scroll speed, simply modify the travelocity parameter as follows:
$(function(){ $("ul#ticker02").liScroll({travelocity: 0.15}); });
You can grab Gian’s useful bit of code here: http://bit.ly/hNelh
Note: Don’t forget to copy off the required liScroll style declarations embedded in the demo page. Without them the ticker won’t actually work – which leads to a lot of unnecessary frustration I tell you! ;)
Related Link: http://bit.ly/hNelh
4 Comments
Thanks for the post. Unfortunatly the code has some bugs in IE8.
Strange. Works fine for me in IE8. Did you try taking all the associated styles off the demo page and work with them? Find that bit of customisation is by far the most important to get it working – for an example of where I used it: http://www.espreports.com/magretail/
The guy is an idiot, and so are you.
His site doesn’t mention anything about the stylesheets (but of course I knew it could need some, magically wrapped up in the javascript perhaps? no) and doesn’t give ANY INDICATION, nor does he give a CLEAN demo page or zip or a link to a minimal style sheet.
And you ALSO fail to mention this fucktardery, except in your faggot comments.
Well, at least you managed to figure it out all by yourself it would seem, so you may as well give yourself a pat on the back then, no?
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