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[ramadji Friend ramadjiJoin date: March 2007Posts: 21Downloads:22Uploads:2 Thanks: 4]

#151247

Hello,

I would like to have an horizontal news scroller or news ticker module between the ja-login and ja-menu modules. How can I go about doing that? Has anybody done it before?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ramadji

[toymaker Friend toymakerJoin date: April 2010Posts: 123Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 45 times in 32 posts]

#344394

If you prefer to complicate your life like me :), you can make changes to the template file and build a module position for your newsticker…

Go to your index.php file inside your template directory and after line 112, add the following:


<?php if($this->countModules('ja-topnewsticker')) : ?>
<div id="ja-newsticker" class="ja-newsticker">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="ja-topnewsticker" />
</div>
<?php endif; ?>


Then open your templateDetails.xml file and after line 37 add the new position, like this:


<positions>
<position>header</position>
<position>hornav</position>
<position>ja-topnewsticker</position>
<position>breadcrumbs</position>


Now add basic styles for correct positioning. Open your template.css file and after line 889 add the following:


/* MY NEWS TICKER
--------------------------------------------------------- */
#ja-newsticker {
position:absolute;
bottom:2px;
left: 10px;
}

/* in case your ticker uses a <p> or a <ul> to define news lines, addthe following code.
You can change to whatever you may need. */
#ja-newsticker p, #ja-newsticker ul, #ja-newsticker li {
margin: 0;
}


This last piece of code should position the new div at the bottom of the header, but you should be able to easily make small adjustments and/or finetuning to this.

Peace,
Gabriel

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[ramadji Friend ramadjiJoin date: March 2007Posts: 21Downloads:22Uploads:2 Thanks: 4]

#344471

Toymaker,
Thanks a lot for your feedback and the trick you’ve shared with all of us. I will try it out and will let you know. Much appreciated.
Ramadji

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