var tWidth='676px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='18px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='';               // background colour:
var moStop=false;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'arial'; // font for content
var tSpeed=3;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

// enter your ticker content here (use \/ and \' in place of / and ' respectively)
//var content='Are you looking for loads of useful information <a href="http:\/\/javascript.about.com\/">About Javascript<\/a>? Well now you\'ve found it.';
var content=document.getElementById('hidden_comments').value;

var cps=tSpeed; 
var aw, mq; 
var fsz = parseInt(tHeight) - 4; 
function startticker(){
	if (document.getElementById) {
		var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;background-color:'+tcolour+'"'; 
		if (moStop) tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; 
		tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;font-family:'+fontfamily+';font-size:'+fsz+'px;font-weight:normal;color:#556B64;white-space:nowrap;"><\/div><\/div>'; 
		document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML = tick; 
		mq = document.getElementById("mq"); 
		mq.style.left=(parseInt(tWidth)+10)+"px"; 
		mq.innerHTML='<span id="tx">'+content+'<\/span>'; 
		aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth; 
		lefttime=setInterval("scrollticker()",50);}} 
		function scrollticker(){mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)>(-10 - aw)) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)-cps+"px" : parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";} 
		window.onload=startticker;