var tWidth='500px'; // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='25px'; // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#ffffcc'; // background colour:
var moStop=true; // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily='arial,sans-serif'; // font for content
var tSpeed=4; // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

// enter your ticker content here (use \/ and \' in place of / and ' respectively)
var content= '<b>ORCA has a new Wildlife Centre on board the DFDS Seaways King of Scandinavia ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam from April.  Pop in and say hello to the ORCA Wildlife Education Officer if you\'re on board.<\/b>'; 

// var content= 'Example of a marquee or ticker with a URL embeded within it <a href="http:\/\/www.orcaweb.org.uk\/discover.htm">Discover Whales and Dolphins<\/a>.';

// 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+';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;