jonmifsud

.tickercontainer { /* the outer div with the black border */
width: 500px;
height: 27px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
.tickercontainer .mask { /* that serves as a mask. so you get a sort of padding both left and right */
position: relative;
top: 8px;

jonmifsud

<data>
  <navigation>
    <section id="1" handle="pages">Pages</section>
    <entry id="1">
      <title mode="formatted" word-count="1">Home</title>
      <url-handle mode="formatted" handle="home" word-count="1">home</url-handle>
    </entry>
    <entry id="2">
      <title mode="formatted" word-count="2">Sample Page</title>
      <url-handle mode="formatted" handle="sample-page" word-count="1">sample-page</url-handle>

jonmifsud

<?php

require_once TOOLKIT . '/class.datasource.php';

class datasourcerecent_comments extends SectionDatasource
{
    public $dsParamROOTELEMENT = 'recent-comments';
    public $dsParamORDER = 'desc';
    public $dsParamPAGINATERESULTS = 'no';
    public $dsParamLIMIT = '20';