horizontal news ticker w/ jQuery (marquee kind of thing)
 

I’m currently trying to put a horizontal news scroller on a page and since I’m using jQuery already I wanted to have something using this framework. However, all I found so far isn’t 100% satisfying for me so far.

The best I could find was liScroll which works but makes me a little suspicious as the script hasn’t been updated since 2007. OK, this could as well be a sign that the script is perfect and it is working in all major browsers but it has a huge gap after the last news item has passed. I would like it to be completely circular, i. e. the first news item should come right after the last one again without huge gap. Does anybody know what I would have to modify? I can’t for the life of me find what’s causing the gap.

I also tried to modify the news ticker script on http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ja...y-news-ticker/ (to make it horizontal) and it works perfectly in Firefox if I change all marginTop and height occurrences to width and marginLeft but IE refuses to accept this (i. e. doesn’t scroll).

The last option I tried was to use scrollable’s autoscroll plugin but it doesn’t work as smoothly as the other ones and I think it’s not so well suited for this purpose.

So I’m totally grateful for any help you can give me.

The best I could suggest is jCarousel - there's a couple of examples of setting it to autoscroll and making it look truly circular. I suspect that you'll be able to muck about with the timings on that to make it a fairly smooth and seamless news scroller, but yeah it's not really designed for it.

Instead of a "circular" horizontal scroller, consider a "circular" rolling one:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1586971

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=49532

The only way I know to make a "circular" horizontal scroller is letter by letter. Remove a letter from the left, append it on the right. It's choppy, but it works.

I have an example of that, if interested contact me, and I'll send it to you.