Title: Items overlapping on initial view with ticker
Last modified: March 13, 2026

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# Items overlapping on initial view with ticker

 *  Resolved [jberg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberg1/)
 * (@jberg1)
 * [2 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/items-overlapping-on-initial-view/)
 * Great plugin!
   I’m running into an issue where if I choose a ticker and select
   initial display as “Filled”, sometimes on initial page load one item overlaps
   another item. Then when it gets across the screen and starts over that overlap
   goes away as it continues. The only way I have been able to resolve is change
   initial display to empty and have them start from the side. Problem with that
   is it won’t start until in comes into viewport.I’m wondering if there is a quick
   fix for this. Possibly setting their width or position in css to keep from overlapping?
   I am currently using the “Max Width” setting in the ticker settings. Also, I 
   have Clone and Wrap items set to Yes, otherwise I end up with a blank section
   before the ticker restarts.Thanks for any help you can provide.
    -  This topic was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by [jberg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberg1/).
    -  This topic was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by [jberg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberg1/).

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 *  Plugin Support [Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemc/)
 * (@joemc)
 * [2 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/items-overlapping-on-initial-view/#post-18851723)
 * Thanks for reaching out. Can you provide a link to your site so I can check it
   out? If you have images within your ticker you need to make sure you define the
   widths of the images with inline styles to ensure the Ditty can accurately calculate
   widths of the items.
 *  Thread Starter [jberg1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberg1/)
 * (@jberg1)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/items-overlapping-on-initial-view/#post-18857875)
 * Thanks for the quick reply Joe. I just can’t get it to show the issue consistently.
   I’ve seen it happen with images and with static text (not posts) on multiple 
   sites. And sometimes it doesn’t load at all. Wondering if it might be a server
   cache issue or a theme (Avada) conflict. I followed your advice with setting 
   image widths inline. I also enabled Ajax Loading under the settings, but not 
   sure that is helping or if that is for the editor side.
 * I’ll reach out again if there is more consistency to the issue.
   Thanks for your
   help and attention.
 *  Plugin Support [Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemc/)
 * (@joemc)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/items-overlapping-on-initial-view/#post-18858418)
 * Sounds good, thanks for the update.

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