Yes I am aware of that....What I was saying was that trying to customize the stylesheet that came with the News Ticker mod didnt work so i have now just created a new div in the ticker sidebox template.

$content .= '<div style ="width: 165px; overflow:hidden;">' . "\n" .

which was just after

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="includes/newsTicker.js"></script>' . "\n" .

At the end of the files I closed the div. This aligns the box and the text by cropping the uneccessary text below, a kind of masking effect.

I have done this because I believe it wasnt the CSS that was creating the width but the Javascript dynamically - therefore I had trouble finding the div width even though I could see the element style in firebug. So rather then change the width i have just masked the text, which was good enough for me in this instance. Thanks for the offer though....