function UpdateAutoEllipsedText(Selector, Length) {
	$(Selector).each(function(index){
		var titleText = $(this).html();
		var newSpan = document.createElement("span");
		newSpan.id = "ellipsisSpan" + index;
		newSpan.setAttribute("style", "white-space:nowrap;");
		newSpan.innerHTML = titleText;
		$(this).html(newSpan);
		
		var myNewSpan = document.getElementById('ellipsisSpan' + index);

		if(myNewSpan.offsetWidth > Length)
		{
			var i = 1;
			myNewSpan.innerHTML = '';
			while(myNewSpan.offsetWidth < (Length) && i < titleText.length)
			{
			 myNewSpan.innerHTML = titleText.substr(0,i) + '...';
			 i++;
			}
				   
			returnText = myNewSpan.innerHTML;
		}
	});	
}

// when the DOM is ready...
function PrepareFeaturesSlide() {
	$('#slider').attr("style", "display:block"); 
    var $panels = $('#slider .scrollContainer > div');
    var $container = $('#slider .scrollContainer');

    // if false, we'll float all the panels left and fix the width 
    // of the container
    var horizontal = true;   
   
    // float the panels left if we're going horizontal
    if (horizontal) {
        $panels.css({
            'float' : 'left',
            'position' : 'relative' // IE fix to ensure overflow is hidden
    });
  
    // calculate a new width for the container (so it holds all panels)
        $container.css('width', $panels[0].offsetWidth * $panels.length);
    }   

    // collect the scroll object, at the same time apply the hidden overflow
    // to remove the default scrollbars that will appear
    var $scroll = $('#slider .scroll').css('overflow', 'hidden');   

    // apply our left + right buttons -- Removed for essentialingredient theme
    //$scroll
	//	.before('<img class="scrollButtons left" src="images/scroll_left.png" />')
	//	.after('<img class="scrollButtons right" src="images/scroll_right.png" />');

    // handle nav selection
    function selectNav() {
        $(this)
            .parents('ul:first')
                .find('a')
                    .removeClass('selected')
                .end()
            .end()
            .addClass('selected');
    }

    $('#slider .navigation').find('a').click(selectNav);

    // go find the navigation link that has this target and select the nav
    function trigger(data) {
        var el = $('#slider .navigation').find('a[href$="' + data.id + '"]').get(0);
        selectNav.call(el);
    }

    if (window.location.hash) {
        trigger({ id : window.location.hash.substr(1) });
    } else {
        $('ul.navigation a:first').click();
    }

    // offset is used to move to *exactly* the right place, since I'm using
    // padding on my example, I need to subtract the amount of padding to
    // the offset.  Try removing this to get a good idea of the effect
    var offset = parseInt((horizontal ? 
        $container.css('paddingTop') : 
        $container.css('paddingLeft')) 
        || 0) * -1;


    var scrollOptions = {
        target: $scroll, // the element that has the overflow
  
        // can be a selector which will be relative to the target
        items: $panels,
  
        navigation: '.navigation a',
       
        // selectors are NOT relative to document, i.e. make sure they're unique
        prev: 'img.left', 
        next: 'img.right',

        // allow the scroll effect to run both directions
        axis: 'xy',

        onAfter: trigger, // our final callback

        offset: offset,

        // duration of the sliding effect
        duration: 1500,
  
        // easing - can be used with the easing plugin: 
        // http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
        easing: 'swing'
    };

    // apply serialScroll to the slider - we chose this plugin because it 
    // supports// the indexed next and previous scroll along with hooking 
    // in to our navigation.
    $('#slider').serialScroll(scrollOptions);

    // now apply localScroll to hook any other arbitrary links to trigger 
    // the effect
    $.localScroll(scrollOptions);   

    // finally, if the URL has a hash, move the slider in to position, 
    // setting the duration to 1 because I don't want it to scroll in the
    // very first page load.  We don't always need this, but it ensures
    // the positioning is absolutely spot on when the pages loads.
    scrollOptions.duration = 1;
    $.localScroll.hash(scrollOptions);    
    
var cycleTimer = setInterval(function () {
   $scroll.trigger('next');
}, 10000);


// select some trigger elements to stop the auto-cycle
var $stopTriggers = $('#slider .navigation').find('a') // tab headers
    .add('.scroll')                                     // panel itself
    .add("a[href^='#']");                               // links to a tab


function stopCycle() {
   
   $stopTriggers.unbind('click.cycle');
   clearInterval(cycleTimer);        
   // $buttons.show();                      
}


$stopTriggers.bind('click.cycle', stopCycle);

}

/**
 * jQuery.LocalScroll - Animated scrolling navigation, using anchors.
 * Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Ariel Flesler - aflesler(at)gmail(dot)com | http://flesler.blogspot.com
 * Dual licensed under MIT and GPL.
 * Date: 6/3/2008
 * @author Ariel Flesler
 * @version 1.2.6
 **/
;(function($){var g=location.href.replace(/#.*/,''),h=$.localScroll=function(a){$('body').localScroll(a)};h.defaults={duration:1e3,axis:'y',event:'click',stop:1};h.hash=function(a){a=$.extend({},h.defaults,a);a.hash=0;if(location.hash)setTimeout(function(){i(0,location,a)},0)};$.fn.localScroll=function(b){b=$.extend({},h.defaults,b);return(b.persistent||b.lazy)?this.bind(b.event,function(e){var a=$([e.target,e.target.parentNode]).filter(c)[0];a&&i(e,a,b)}):this.find('a,area').filter(c).bind(b.event,function(e){i(e,this,b)}).end().end();function c(){var a=this;return!!a.href&&!!a.hash&&a.href.replace(a.hash,'')==g&&(!b.filter||$(a).is(b.filter))}};function i(e,a,b){var c=a.hash.slice(1),d=document.getElementById(c)||document.getElementsByName(c)[0],f;if(d){e&&e.preventDefault();f=$(b.target||$.scrollTo.window());if(b.lock&&f.is(':animated')||b.onBefore&&b.onBefore.call(a,e,d,f)===!1)return;if(b.stop)f.queue('fx',[]).stop();f.scrollTo(d,b).trigger('notify.serialScroll',[d]);if(b.hash)f.queue(function(){location=a.hash;$(this).dequeue()})}}})(jQuery);