Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker

<p> Many websites display a <i>news ticker</i> of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. For example, on <a website</a> there is a news ticker that shows the latest news items. Each news item is a one sentence link, such as Virtualization Gathers or Reports First Quarter Clicking a headline whisks you to a page that shows the full story. news ticker shows one headline at a time; every few seconds the currently displayed headline fades out and the next one appears. In total, Cisco has five different headlines - the ticker displays each of the five and then starts back from the beginning. </p><p> This article is the first in a series that explores how to create your own news ticker widget using jQuery and ASP.NET. <a is a free, popular, open-source JavaScript library that simplifies many common client-side tasks, like event handling, DOM manipulation, and Ajax. This article kicks off the series and shows how to build a fairly simple news ticker whose contents can be specified statically in HTML markup or created dynamically from server-side code. Future installments will explore adding bells and whistles, such as: stopping the news ticker rotation when the mouse is hovered over it; adding controls to start, stop and pause the headlines; loading new headlines dynamically using Ajax; and packaging the JavaScript used by the ticker into a <a plugin</a>. </p><p> Read on to learn more! <br /><a More &gt;</a></p>

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