News Item vertical scrolling wanted

[whiter]

I'm looking for a vertical scrolling javascript system that will present a series of news snippets:-
-- each to be able to include both a picture and text and linking to another page,
-- user to be able to halt scrolling on mouseover, and click to go to another page on/off the site

If possible, I'd like to be able to support two adjacent columns of news items scrolling up together.

I found this script
http://javascript.internet.com/scrolls/multiple-message-scroller.html

BUT this one scrolls only ONE item at a time, and the next item doesn't scroll on till the previous item has scrolled off! Useless!!!!!
(Or am I not setting a parameter right??)

For an example of what I want ... please see the scrolling news items on the left hand side of page: http://www.province.org.uk/whatsnew.htm

This scroller is in Java (applet) ... and I want a Javascript equivalent if anyone knows of one???

Thanks

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[Nevermore]

Why doesn't anyone just use a marquee? Or have I missed something here?

[khalidali63]

Originally posted by cijori
Why doesn't anyone just use a marquee? Or have I missed something here?
:confused:
May be because "marquee" is IE specific tag?
Make sense?

;)
cheers

Khalid

[Nevermore]

I never knew... Thx.

[whiter]

Why not a marquee ...... because (afaik) a marquee only goes horizontally - and I want a vertical scroll with wrap-around.

This seems to be the big failing of all the Javascript solutions I have found - they don't smoothly wrap-around. Instead they scroll off and then restart the scroll up from the bottom.

I want one where as the last item scrolls up, the first item (repeated) is following it up directly.

Thanks

[Nevermore]

I'll see if I can't cook one up for you

[whiter]

Hi cijori :)

Sounds a great idea!! Any chance the script will be able to handle embedded HTML (eg. graphics and font/style changes of text) within each item being scrolled?

I've seen Java scrolling lists, but even then they seem to handle little more than text scrolling .....

Thanks for your help :-)

[tasneem]

Hi
I have used a text scroller on my website at http://www.des-us.com/home.htm. If you like it then you can use the file I am attaching for the code.

[whiter]

Thanks for the scroller BUT ... unfortunately it suffers from the same thing that all the other Javascript scrollers have --

It doesn't wrap around.

The contents is scrolled fully off the top of the scroll area before it restarts from the bottom. I need one where there is a continuous wrap around.

I found a Java (not JS) applet, but it didn't handle graphics or embedded HTML code in the item being scrolled - otherwise it was fine.