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[daygo140]

I got it all those darn n00b (lol) breaks did it.  I used the original code (in addition to the _blank WITHOUT QUOTES...LOL) in your very first post and at height i turned to 175px.  No unnecessary breaks and it works fine in IE now....!

[URPG]

Well, the last i posted is easier to configure, if you would want to change speed, etc. you would not have to dig it up inside the code...

[daftdate]

ive tried to use your code to get a scrolling rss feed block but when i enter my rss feed url its not giving me the correct link.

http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/england/west_midlands/rss.xml

is it because its an xml file? rather than the type of file that you have for CNN.  It lists and scrolls the headlines but when i click on one it puts my forums address up and cant find the address to the feed weird really as the CNN works perfectly but i want my students to see local news. 

the feed pulls into the rss block with tiny portal perfectly i just wanted it to scroll and open in a separate window to stop students navigating away from the forum.

[URPG]

That's strange... actualy rss files are supposed to be xml files with special contend... as far as i understood it. The script should read the parts and put it together...

Could be another standard? Did you compare the xml file and the rss file? Do they look the same?

[daftdate]

this is the scroll feed I get when i put in my local xml feed as you can see it puts the http address up under the headline but doesnt link to the feed when you click on it.



I get this error



try pasting in the url into your code and see what you get maybe its me but i dont think so.  im not sure if the two files are the same but for some reason its reading them differently. 

[URPG]

Seems like the order of information is different in your source. It can find the headlines, but somehow confuses the link for the headline with it's description?

You could give me a link to your source file, then i could try to find out why it's not working like other feeds? But i am not an expert on those rss files themself...

[daftdate]

This is the link to the rss feed

http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/england/west_midlands/rss.xml

other than this http line i havent changed anything else in your code so am unsure of why its changing it around,
but dont worry if you cant get it working I will just go with the static one.  and thanx for all your help. 

[URPG]

Does not look like a real rss feed to me. It's a page with the feeds description, etc. and part of it is the rss feed it seems...

Just open http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss and take a look at the difference...

But maybe the basic script i used to read the feed cannot handle all formats...

[daftdate]

Oh right i see what you mean im unsure if you can get that script from the bbc I will have a look around and see what i can try  thanx anyway. 

[akulion]

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