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jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook

By : Leon Revill
Book Image

jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook

By: Leon Revill

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a news ticker


This recipe will show you how to create a simple news ticker with a stop/pause functionality. A news ticker is a great way to display a lot of information such as tweets, quotes, or general news items in a small space.

Getting ready

Once again, you are going to need to create three files. Create recipe-2.html, recipe-2.css, and recipe-2.js in the same directory as the latest version of jQuery.

How to do it…

Carry out the following step-by-step instructions to create an animated news ticker:

  1. Add the following HTML code to recipe-2.html to create a simple web page and content for our ticker:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>Chapter 6 :: Recipe 2</title>
        <link href="recipe-2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script src="recipe-2.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div class="header">
        <h1>CONTENT TICKER</h1>
    </div>
    &lt...