jQuery – How to Create a News Ticker with just a few JavaScript lines?

As you already know now, I love to reinvent the wheel ( jQuery always allows me that), and because of that, once more, we’ll see how to create something which already exists: a news ticker.

Usually the “news ticker” is a display of news which scroll horizontally, like those which can be seen in some newscasts in the lower part of the screen. Our news ticker will be slightly different given that the news won’t scroll horizontally but vertically instead, and in between the news there will be a pre-established pause (I think that this method gives prominence to every single news and at the same time it gives more time to the reader to read the article at hand, but obviously this is only my opinion). || Read more »