Comments on: Coding an animated news ticker with jquery and CSS

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:37:34 +0000

Oh yeah, good call on that.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:55:28 +0000

Alright, I tried putting it at the top of the HEAD and still had the same issue.

Found an easy fix for now using CSS. On the containing div just set overflow: hidden; and voilà! Loads beautifully. Thanks for all your help!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:24:13 +0000

I’d go with putting it in the head so it loads sooner. However, many people will recommend you put your javascript in the footer, right before the tag. This is a special case because you want it to load quickly. Are you loading any other javascript in your head? If so, try putting the link to the ticker js at the top of the list of links.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:40:42 +0000

It’s hosted on a local testing server. No way to send a link right now. I’ll keep messing with it. Any suggestions where to place the code if not in the HEAD or before the UL?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:09:40 +0000

Yep, you’re right. Position of the code in your html file is the cause of this. Mind sending me the link?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:48:37 +0000

Sorry, correction…

I’ve tried both having it in the HEAD and directly before the UL but neither fixes it. Interesting!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:47:24 +0000

By flash I mean that all of my list content (5 news articles) is briefly visible while the page (I’m guessing) finishes loading. Then once the page is fully loaded the list content disappears and the ticker displays only one article just it’s meant to.

Also, I thought it could be because of the code placement but I’ve tried both having it in the and directly before the but neither fixes it. Interesting!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:40:23 +0000

what do you mean by flash?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:58:02 +0000

Here’s my issue, everything seems to be working perfectly but when the page loads all of my news articles I want it to cycle through flash on the page for a second and then disappear. Any suggestions?

By: Sel

Sel — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:53:22 +0000

Dang because your script is REALLY close to being able to do the exact same thing except it just keeps displaying the text instead of scrolling it within a set width.