how to make div click-able?

Question

<div><span>shanghai</span><span>male</span></div> 

For div like above,when mouse on,it should become cursor:pointer,and when clicked,fire a

javascript function,how to do that job?

EDIT: and how to change the background color of div when mouse is on?

EDIT AGAIN:how to make the first span's width=120px?Seems not working in firefox

Answer 1

Give it an ID like "something", then:

var something = document.getElementById('something');  something.style.cursor = 'pointer'; something.onclick = function() {     // do something... }; 

Changing the background color (as per your updated question):

something.onmouseover = function() {     this.style.backgroundColor = 'red'; }; something.onmouseout = function() {     this.style.backgroundColor = ''; };