This script and html are used to fancy up a list of articles then rotate the article teaser text…

Script to change list of articles into a rotation of text

// rotate the articles
var $text = $('#section div.article');
$text.remove();
$text.teasers = [];
$.each($text, function(){
	$text.teasers.push(this);
});
$text.idx = 0;
$text.stage = $('#section div.inset');
$text.stage.html($text.teasers[$text.idx]);
setInterval(function() { 
	if ( $text.teasers.length > ($text.idx+1) ) {
		$text.idx ++ ;
	} else {
		$text.idx = 0;
	}
	$text.stage.html($text.teasers[$text.idx]);
}, 12000);

Soure HTML that script read to rotate articles

<div id="section"><div class="inset">
	<div class="article">
		<h3><a href="">link</a></h3>
		<p>article teaser text...</p>
	</div>
	<div class="article">
		<h3><a href="">link</a></h3>
		<p>article text...</p>
	</div>
	<div class="article">
		<h3><a href="">link</a></h3>
		<p>another article text...</p>
	</div>
</div></div>