Javascript - Display a div box where the mouse pointer stands

Simply copy and paste the following code inside your body tags and run it from a browser.
If you want to see the live result (we believe this is the best way to learn what is the script about), try it here (new window).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" /> <style type="text/css"> //We hide the box at first (hidden) #box{ width: 200px; height: 100px; overflow:hidden; visibility: hidden; background-color:#8f8f8f; color:red; position:absolute; opacity:.50; filter:alpha(opacity=50); -moz-opacity:0.5; } //we give a style to the close button which is only a link a.close{width:20px;height:20px;text-align:center;margin:5px; border:1px solid black;float:right;background-color:white;color:red; font-size:16px;text-decoration:none} </style> <script language="javascript">  </script> </head> <body> <div id="box"> <a href="#" onclick="javascript:closeBox();return false;" class="close" title="Close the box">X</a> The content of the box which is shown on click from the link.<br /> You can add anything here as usually... </div> <a href="#" onclick="javascript:ShowBox(event);return false;">Click me to load</a> </body> </html>

For explicit information about the browser detection and problems occuring accross browsers, you check these sources:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:event
http://msdn.microsoft.com/...dhtml_overviews_entry.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/.../browserdetection.asp

In addition to studying the way it's done to retrieve the mouse coordinates, I have added a bit of CSS code to manage the opacity of a box and the simple visual effect of the same box including the link tag.

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Javascript - Display a div box where the mouse pointer stands

Javascript - Display a div box where the mouse pointer stands

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