# Ticker tape

A React component in [Beamline](https://beamline.io/)'s [Trading](https://beamline.io/components/trading) category. Live demo: https://beamline.io/components/ticker-tape

A continuously scrolling row of symbols with price, change and mini trend; pauses on hover and focus.

## Use it for

- A top strip across a trading app or dashboard.

## Not for

- Anything the user must read reliably → watchlist.

## Anatomy

- track
- item (symbol, price, change, mini trend)

## Variants

- **trend**: on, off

## States

- scrolling
- paused (hover/focus)
- static (reduced motion)

## Keyboard

- Items are buttons when onSelect is set; focusing one pauses the tape.

## Motion

Linear scroll at `speed` px/s; reduced motion turns it into a static scrollable row.

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `items` (required) | `Ticker[]` | — |  |
| `speed` | `number` | `40` |  |
| `onSelect` | `(symbol) => void` | — |  |
| `style / ref` | `CSSProperties / native Ref` | — | native HTMLDivElement |
| `classNames` | `TickerTapeClassNames` | — |  |

## Import

```tsx
import { TickerTape } from "@/components/ticker-tape/ticker-tape";
```

## Get it

Ticker tape is part of Beamline: 190 React components and screens your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) installs into your app through Beamline's MCP server, as a ready-built package or as plain React source you can change. $49 one payment (regular $200), no subscription, a year of updates, one licence for your whole team. [Get Beamline](https://beamline.io/checkout?pack=complete) · [Connect your agent](https://beamline.io/connect)

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- [Watchlist](https://beamline.io/components/watchlist): A selectable, sortable list of markets with mini trends, prices, changes and stars.