June 14th, 2009, 07:41 PM
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BBC News Ticker
Hi Guys,
I just started coding html/css a couple of days ago so bear with me.
I found this code in a very old thread; it is the ticker from the BBC News website.
Would someone be so kind as to show me how I would adapt it so that it just displays text rather than links?
Code:
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/nol/shared/css/news.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="ticki"><a id="tickerAnchor" href="#" target="_top" class="tickl"></a></div>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Ticker startup
function startTicker()
{
// Define run time values
theCurrentStory = -1;
theCurrentLength = 0;
// Locate base objects
if (document.getElementById) {
theAnchorObject = document.getElementById("tickerAnchor");
runTheTicker();
}
else {
document.write("<style>.ticki{display:none;}.ticko{border:0px; padding:0px;}</style>");
return true;
}
}
// Ticker main run loop
function runTheTicker()
{
var myTimeout;
// Go for the next story data block
if(theCurrentLength == 0)
{
theCurrentStory++;
theCurrentStory = theCurrentStory % theItemCount;
theStorySummary = theSummaries[theCurrentStory].replace(/"/g,'"');
theTargetLink = theSiteLinks[theCurrentStory];
theAnchorObject.href = theTargetLink;
thePrefix = "<span class=\"tickls\">" + theLeadString + "</span>";
}
// Stuff the current ticker text into the anchor
theAnchorObject.innerHTML = thePrefix +
theStorySummary.substring(0,theCurrentLength) + whatWidget();
// Modify the length for the substring and define the timer
if(theCurrentLength != theStorySummary.length)
{
theCurrentLength++;
myTimeout = theCharacterTimeout;
}
else
{
theCurrentLength = 0;
myTimeout = theStoryTimeout;
}
// Call up the next cycle of the ticker
setTimeout("runTheTicker()", myTimeout);
}
// Widget generator
function whatWidget()
{
if(theCurrentLength == theStorySummary.length)
{
return theWidgetNone;
}
if((theCurrentLength % 2) == 1)
{
return theWidgetOne;
}
else
{
return theWidgetTwo;
}
}
// -->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var theCharacterTimeout = 50;
var theStoryTimeout = 5000;
var theWidgetOne = "_";
var theWidgetTwo = "-";
var theWidgetNone = "";
var theLeadString = "LATEST: ";
var theSummaries = new Array();
var theSiteLinks = new Array();
var theItemCount = 4;
theSummaries[0] = "China asks Taiwan to consider more direct commercial flights between the countries.";
theSiteLinks[0] = "/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4296507.stm";
theSummaries[1] = "Ecuador's former defence minister is arrested for allegedly authorising an arms deal.";
theSiteLinks[1] = "/1/hi/world/americas/4296201.stm";
theSummaries[2] = "Vietnam reports a new bird flu case, as international conference discusses action.";
theSiteLinks[2] = "/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4296495.stm";
theSummaries[3] = "US court dismisses bankruptcy case brought by Russian oil giant Yukos. ";
theSiteLinks[3] = "/1/hi/business/4296425.stm";
startTicker();
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
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