# Offtopic: could anyone advise on the layout name please?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275
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**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275 "2023-01-30T06:46:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275/1 "2023-01-30T06:46:04Z")
Hi guys, sorry for such a question, but I genuinely don’t know where else I could ask for this kind of help.
Do you maybe happen to know whether the word ‘ticker’ is commonly used and understood? Like the running line in the news which shows the info?
We need to name a layout in the widget where either the text or images are supposed to “run” and we really wouldn’t want to fall flat on our face with the inaccurate name…
Thank you in advance!!
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### Author:  [@piffy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/piffy)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275/2 "2023-01-30T07:47:01Z")
Entirety subjective but I did not immediately know what was meant by “ticker” before reading your description. That being said, I did understand after the explanation and it is the correct word:
> **[News ticker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_ticker)**
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> A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, ticker tape, or chyron) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on the language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space on a television station or network (usually during news programming) or as a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the facades of some offices or public buildings dedicated to presenting headlines or minor pieces of ...
Perhaps the full term “news ticker” would provide the appropriate context
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### Author:  [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275/3 "2023-01-30T08:19:32Z")
@piffy thanks a million! Do you think “News ticker” will work for images as well? Or does it usually work for text only?
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275/4 "2023-01-30T08:25:00Z")
A ticker is a banner like what news studios are using when showing breaking news or how nasdaq changes,
In early times almost every dynamic’ish banners were called as a ticker. But html and everything else matured and nowadays we have carousels and slideshows.
So, a ticker is onekind banner and using it with images is… strange. Perhaps good ol’ slideshow would be better?
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### Author:  [@Helga\_Razinkova](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Helga_Razinkova)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offtopic-could-anyone-advise-on-the-layout-name-please/253275/5 "2023-01-30T08:28:38Z")
Great point, @Jagster, many thanks!! Agree that “Ticker” doesn’t sound quite right even for my foreign ear 🙂