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I'm want to say that my original reason was because of the limited space that I gave myself with my forum theme. I already adjusted the left and right page margins to make the width of the forum manageable as a text-based space, then adding the sidebar squeezed me into an even tighter space because I liked the look of the news headline being above only the category lists and not over the entire page (both sidebar and categories). So a news headline of a certain length gets cut off, and the marquee animation both allows the full headline to display and also draws your attention to it so you can't really overlook it. To be honest, it's been so long since I've seen a news headline on a standard non-themed PB forum that I can't remember how it treats a headline that is too long to fit into the space in a single line.

I was on my PC. I did also test it on desktop mobile and it did the same thing, it just seemed like the text scrolled slower so the animation cut off even sooner (halfway through the headline rather than near the end like it does on PC).

I'm going to try to include some information here: I remember wanting the news headline to marquee scroll and had to search for a way to get it to do that since it isn't a default PB animation. I believe I also had to force the news headline to constrain itself to a single line, as opposed to overflowing to a line 2 so that it would fit into the box that I made for it. I must have found a way to do this, but it doesn't work right when you have two separate news headlines because the default PB animation is (I think) to display the first headline in its entirety, then display the second headline in its entirety. This default transition clashes with the marquee animation (and probably also clashes with the "forced to one line" thing), which is where the "comment this code out when using more than one news headline" comes into play. That eliminates the marquee animation, but the overflow then becomes an issue. The headline being longer than the width of the box just causes the end of the headline to be cut off, and when it does the default PB transition to the second headline, you'll see the end of the first headline overlapping the beginning of the second headline.

I think I'm maybe just trying to combine too many fluid things (headline length, number of headlines, marquee timing, etc.) into one and there might not be an easy "fix all" solution. I do have an alternate idea of just using the sidebar redux to create a new "announcements" box and put my news headlines over there and just forget about the default headline area. I say that because if you take another look and think it's a particularly complicated issue, I wouldn't want you to deep dive into it because this other solution is also something that I can make work.

It's currently displaying the following:

I figured diagnosing how it behaves with a single news headline first would be best, since I can live without having two if that makes things too challenging. If you're not seeing the animation stop and restart prematurely, maybe it has something to do with resolution/screen size? Should I add the second news headline on so you can see how it behaves with two news headlines?

Thank you. Is there a way to have this plugin work with a cooldown of 60 seconds or 120 seconds? Minimum of 180sec is a bit too much.