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This is a jQuery plugin that provides auto scroll capabilities to scrollable elements.

requires jQuery Timers

$("#div").autoscroll();

$("#div").autoscroll({
  action: [start]|stop|delay|fastfoward|rewind|update|pause|resume|reverse|toggle
  step: unit [50] - higher means faster
  direction: up|[down]|left|right|(up|down)(left|right)
  scroll: [true]|false - used internally but allows you to set the 
                         autoscroll up and have it no autoscroll on init.
  delay: unit [5000] in milliseconds - used with delay action
  speed:  slow|[fast]|unit in milliseconds - used with fastforward and rewind actions
});

items with brackets " [ ] " around them indicate default values

Features:

• Scroll any scrollable element up, down, left or right and even diagonal.
• Automatically pauses scroll on mouse over.
• Provides methods to fast forward, rewind, pause and reverse the scrolling.
• Provides method to pause the scroll and resume after a specified delay

Demonstration