Jquery Breaking News Ticker

Jquery Breaking News Ticker is a responsive, flexible, customizable jQuery text scroller plugin which can be used for stock ticker, breaking news ticker, and much more.

Main features:

• Supports plain HTML, JSON, RSS feed.
• Scroll, fade, type, slide animations.
• Auto play with pause on hover.
• Supports RTL text direction.
• Custom ticker label.
• Ticker controls: play, pause, next, prev.

Source: jqueryscript.net

1. INCLUDE CSS AND JS FILES

<link rel="stylesheet" href="breaking-news-ticker.css">
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="breaking-news-ticker.min.js"></script>

2. HTML

<div class="breaking-news-ticker" id="example">
  <div class="bn-label">Ticker Label</div>
  <div class="bn-news">
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">1.1. Breaking NEWS 1</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">1.2. Breaking NEWS 2</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">1.3. Breaking NEWS 3</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">1.4. Breaking NEWS 4</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">1.5. Breaking NEWS 5</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">1.6. Breaking NEWS 6</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">1.7. Breaking NEWS 7</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div class="bn-controls">
    <button><span class="bn-arrow bn-prev"></span></button>
    <button><span class="bn-action"></span></button>
    <button><span class="bn-arrow bn-next"></span></button>
  </div>
</div>

3. JAVASCRIPT

$('#example').breakingNews();

4. Create a news ticker from a RSS feed.

Html

<div class="breaking-news-ticker" id="feed">
  <div class="bn-news">
    <ul>
      <li><span class="bn-loader-text">Loading...</span></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div class="bn-controls">
    <button><span class="bn-arrow bn-prev"></span></button>
    <button><span class="bn-action"></span></button>
    <button><span class="bn-arrow bn-next"></span></button>
  </div>
</div>

Javascript

$('#feed').breakingNews({
  source: {
    type:'rss',
    usingApi:'rss2json',
    rss2jsonApiKey: 'RSS2JSON API KEY',
    url:'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss',
    limit:10,
    showingField:'title',
    linkEnabled: true,
    target:'_blank',
    seperator: '<span class="bn-seperator" style="background-image:url(img/cnn-logo.png);"></span>',
    errorMsg: 'RSS Feed not loaded. Please try again.'
  }
});

5. Create a news ticker from JSON data.

Html

<div class="breaking-news-ticker" id="json">
  <div class="bn-news">
    <ul>
      <li><span class="bn-loader-text">Loading...</span></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div class="bn-controls">
    <button><span class="bn-arrow bn-prev"></span></button>
    <button><span class="bn-action"></span></button>
    <button><span class="bn-arrow bn-next"></span></button>
  </div>
</div>

Javascript

$('#newsTicker6').breakingNews({
  source: {
    type:'json',
    url:'/path/to/json',
    limit:10,
    showingField:'title',
    linkEnabled: false,
    target:'_blank',
    seperator: '<span class="bn-seperator" style="background-image:url(img/cnn-logo.png);"></span>',
    errorMsg: 'Json file not loaded. Please check the settings.'
  }
});

6. OPTIONS

Specify the animation type. Default: 'slide'.

• fade
• slide-down
• slide-up
• slide-right
• slide-left
• typography

$('#example').breakingNews({
  effect: 'fade'
});

Stick the news ticker to the bottom of the page.

$('#example').breakingNews({
  position: "fixed-bottom"
});

Customize the appearance of the news ticker

$('#example').breakingNews({
  height: 40,
  fontSize: "default",
  themeColor: "default",
  background: "default",
  borderWidth: 1,
  radius: 2,
  zIndex: 99999
});

More options

$('#example').breakingNews({

  // or "rtl"
  direction: "ltr",

  // enable autoplay
  play: true,

  // autoplay interval
  delayTimer: 4000,

  // animation speed
  scrollSpeed: 2,

  // pause on hover
  stopOnHover: true
  
});