# How would you code this news ticker?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-you-code-this-news-ticker/254508>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 12, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-you-code-this-news-ticker/254508 "2008-03-12T20:18:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![guitarplayer08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4bbf92/32.png) [@guitarplayer08](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/guitarplayer08)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-you-code-this-news-ticker/254508/1 "2008-03-12T20:18:39Z")

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I basically want to make a news ticker/flasher that if the user move the mouse over, the news ticker will expand upwards to show a brief description of a particular topic. The data will be passed to flash via XML.

I made an image of this process.

I followed some XML tutorial here and I finished with the “news flashing every 5 sec” part. I just dont know how to stop at a particular title and start where it left off after a user move the mouse away.