/* ─────────────────────────────────────────
   Marquee Ticker — BEM Component Styles
   Block:    .ticker
   Elements: __track  __inner  __item  __item-link  __item-text  __separator
   ───────────────────────────────────────── */

:root {
  --ticker-bg:           #0093E2;
  --ticker-color:        #ffffff;
  --ticker-accent:       #0C457D;       /* swap to match brand */
  --ticker-font-size:    24px;
  --ticker-font-family:  "Source Serif 4", Sans-serif;
  --ticker-font-weight:  400;
  --ticker-padding-y:    32px;
  --ticker-gap:          40px;        /* space between items */
  --ticker-link-hover:   var(--ticker-accent);
}

/* Block */
.ticker {
  width: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: var(--ticker-bg);
  padding-block: var(--ticker-padding-y);
  position: relative;
}

/* Pause on hover — JS also reads this */
.ticker:hover .ticker__track {
  animation-play-state: paused; /* fallback if CSS anim used */
}

/* Track — scrolling container */
.ticker__track {
  display: flex;
  width: max-content;
  will-change: transform;
}

/* Inner — one copy of all items; JS clones this */
.ticker__inner {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: var(--ticker-gap);
  padding-inline: calc(var(--ticker-gap) / 2);
  white-space: nowrap;
  flex-shrink: 0;
}

/* Item */
.ticker__item {
  display: inline-flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: var(--ticker-gap);
}

.ticker__item,.ticker__item a{
  color: var(--ticker-color);
  font-size: var(--ticker-font-size);
  font-family:var(--ticker-font-family);
  font-weight: var(--ticker-font-weight);
}
.ticker__item-text,.ticker__item a{
	font-style: italic;
}
/* Link variant */
.ticker__item-link {
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: color 0.2s ease;
}

.ticker__item-link:hover,
.ticker__item-link:focus-visible {
  color: var(--ticker-link-hover);
  outline: none;
}

/* Plain text variant */
.ticker__item-text {
  color: inherit;
}

/* Separator */
.ticker__separator {
  color: var(--ticker-color);
  line-height: 1;
  flex-shrink: 0;
  font-size:28px;
}