How to create a news ticker using jQuery ?

Last Updated : 01 Jun, 2023

A news ticker is a text-based display either in the form of a graphic that displays news scrolling text running from up to down or right to left. In this article, we will use a jQuery plugin called easy-ticker to create a news ticker in a simple manner.

To use this plugin, simply add the CDN link in the script tag of your HTML code.

<script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js”></script> <script src=”https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-easy-ticker/2.0.0/jquery.easy-ticker.min.js”></script>

Example: Let us look at the HTML code to know how we can create a news ticker using the easy-ticker plugin.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <title>News Ticker Effect</title>
    <script src=
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js">
    </script>
    <script src=
"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-easy-ticker/2.0.0/jquery.easy-ticker.min.js">
    </script>
    <style>
        .dashboard {
            background-color: green;
            width: 600px;
            height: 350px;
            border: 3px solid black;
            overflow: hidden;
            border-radius: 15px;
            margin: 0px auto;
        }
 
        ul {
            margin: 1px;
            padding: 1px;
        }
 
        li {
            text-align: justify;
            border-bottom: 2px solid blue;
        }
 
        h1 {
            color: red;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body style="text-align:center;">
    <h1>GFG COURSES</h1>
    <div class="dashboard">
        <ul id="news">
            <li>
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                <p>
                    This course will begin from the 
                    basics of Android Development and
                    will take you to a level where 
                    you can make full fledged Android 
                    apps. It covers things like UI 
                    building, Kotlin programming,
                    communicating between different 
                    screens of an app,implementing 
                    static and dynamic custom lists, 
                    working with databases ,fetching 
                    data from the internet using REST 
                    APIs, using various important 
                    libraries and working with local 
                    device storage.
                </p>
            </li>
            <li>
                <h1>
                    Data Structure and Algorithm self paced
                </h1>                
                <p>
                    This course is a complete package that 
                    helps you learn Data Structures and 
                    Algorithms from basic to an advanced 
                    level. The course curriculum has been 
                    divided into 10 weeks where you can 
                    practice questions & attempt the 
                    assessment tests according to your 
                    own pace. The course offers you a
                    wealth of programming challenges that 
                    will help you to prepare for interviews
                    with top-notch companies like Microsoft, 
                    Amazon,Adobe etc.
                </p>
            </li>
 
            <li>
                <h1>Java Backend Course</h1>
                <p>
                    This course will help you to learn 
                    Advanced Java, Spring / Spring Boot,
                    Hibernate, RESTful APIs, Micro-services
                    & related technologies to build Java
                    -based web applications. The course will 
                    be mentored & guided by an Industry 
                    expert having hands-on experience in 
                    the design, development & maintenance 
                    of Java (Spring / Spring Boot) based 
                    web applications.The course includes 1 
                    major & 2 minor projects based on real
                    -world applications with guided lab 
                    sessions.
                </p>
            </li>
 
            <li>
                <h1>Fundamentals of Java and Collections</h1>
                <p>
                    This course covers the basics of Java 
                    and in-depth explanations to Java
                    Collections Framework along with video 
                    explanations of some problems based on
                    the Java Collections Framework. The 
                    Java Collections Framework is a set of
                    classes, Interfaces, and methods that 
                    provide us various data structures like
                    LinkedList, ArrayList, HashMap, HashSet 
                    etc.
                </p>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
 
    <script type="text/javascript">
 
        $(document).ready(function () {
 
            // Calling easyTicker function to 
            // create newsticker movement
            $('.dashboard').easyTicker({
                direction: 'up',
                easing: 'swing',
                speed: 'slow',
                interval: 2000,
                height: 'auto',
                mousePause: true,
                controls: {
                    playText: 'Play',
                    stopText: 'Stop'
                },
                callbacks: {
                    before: false,
                    after: false
                }
            });
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>