Is it at all possible to change the height of the box in which the scrolling news is displayed? If so, how do I do this? I've searched this forum but to no avail!

it's in News.js

var sheight='40'

and BoardIndex.pl

  <td class="win center" style="height: 40px">

Change both 40's to the size you require.

Excellent, I've done that thanks.

But now the box is bigger, but the text that scrolls only appears within a smaller 'invisible' box i.e. the text appears about quarter of the way up the box, then disappears qtr of the way from the top of the box.  Is there any way to make the text appear for the whole journey from the bottom to the top of the box?

And is it possible to stop the text from pausing at the top of the box, unless the mouse is held over it?

You lowered the value of 40 and the box is bigger??

No, I increased the value to 100 which increased the size of the box - as expected, but the text only shows up within a small area within that box. Make sense?

And you changed both 40 values to 100?

Yep, both 40's are now 100 and the box is just the right size. Its as if there is a huge cell padding on the news box (but according to the code it doesn;t seem to be the case).

Would you like to see any files or anything else which might help?

I've just tested it on my test site: http://www.opportunitynowhere.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?

Changed the 40px in BoardIndex.pl to 100px and changed var sheight='40' to var sheight='100' in News.js and it works perfectly.

hmmm, curious.

Here is the extract from BoardIndex.pl
     if($enews) {
          $ebout .= <<"EOT";
<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" class="border" width="100%">
<tr>
  <td class="titlebg"><strong><img src="$images/site_sm.gif" alt="" /> $mbname $var{'4'}</strong></td>
</tr><tr>
  <td class="win center" style="height: 100px">
   <script type="text/javascript" src="$bdocsdir/news.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
   <!-- <![CDATA[
EOT

And this is from news.js
//configure the below five variables to change the style of the scroller
var sdelay='300' //delay between msg scrolls. 1000=1 seconds.
var swidth='100%'
var sheight='100'
var sspeed='2'

var singletext=new Array()

if (singletext.length>1)
     i=1
else
     i=0

Does anything look wrong in there?

It all looks as it should do, what version of E-Blah are you running?

10.2

unzip and upload the attached news.zip, see if it makes a difference.

Genius!  That's done the trick! Thanks for your help!

What did you do, out of interest?

It's just a copy of the News.js from 10.2.5, maybe you had an older version.
I also set the delay to 0 so it shouldn't pause.