Highlighter Scroller 1

This interesting scroller rotates and displays messages by highlighting each one into view, like using a felts to highlight text on a page. Very cool!



<script type="text/javascript"><br />var tickercontents=new Array()<br />tickercontents[0]='TEXT HERE'<br />tickercontents[1]='TEXT 2 HERE'<br />tickercontents[2]='This scroller\'s brought to you by <a href="http://www.java--scripts.blogspot.com">JavaScripts</a>'<br /><br />var tickdelay=3000 //delay btw messages<br />var highlightspeed=10 //10 pixels at a time.<br /><br />////Do not edit pass this line////////////////<br /><br />var currentmessage=0<br />var clipwidth=0<br /><br />function changetickercontent(){<br />crosstick.style.clip="rect(0px 0px auto 0px)"<br />crosstick.innerHTML=tickercontents[currentmessage]<br />highlightmsg()<br />}<br /><br />function highlightmsg(){<br />var msgwidth=crosstick.offsetWidth<br />if (clipwidth<msgwidth){ clip="rect(0px " beginclip="setTimeout(" clipwidth="0" currentmessage="=" currentmessage="0" crosstick="document.getElementById?" crosstickparent="crosstick.parentNode?">0)<br />crosstickParent.style.height=crosstick.offsetHeight+'px'<br />else<br />setTimeout("crosstickParent.style.height=crosstick.offsetHeight+'px'",100) //delay for Mozilla's sake<br />changetickercontent()<br />}<br /><br />if (document.all || document.getElementById)<br />window.onload=start_ticking<br /><br /></script> <a href="http://www.java--scripts.blogspot.com/">JavaScripts</a><p></p><br />