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How can I use jQuery to follow the cursor with a DIV?
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Definition and Usage The mousemove event occurs whenever the mouse pointer moves within the selected element. The mousemove() method triggers the mousemove event, or attaches a function to run when a mousemove event occurs. Note: Each time a user moves the mouse one pixel, a mousemove event occurs.
To do this, we use document. elementFromPoint(x+px, y+py) in which we pass the position of image cursor. This will gives us the object of the element, the image cursor is on. After obtaining the required object, we can invoke the object.
You can't follow the cursor with a DIV, but you can draw a DIV when moving the cursor!
$(document).on('mousemove', function(e){
$('#your_div_id').css({
left: e.pageX,
top: e.pageY
});
});
That div must be off the float, so position: absolute should be set.
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You don't need jQuery for this. Here's a simple working example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>box-shadow-experiment</title>
<style type="text/css">
#box-shadow-div{
position: fixed;
width: 1px;
height: 1px;
border-radius: 100%;
background-color:black;
box-shadow: 0 0 10px 10px black;
top: 49%;
left: 48.85%;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function(){
var bsDiv = document.getElementById("box-shadow-div");
var x, y;
// On mousemove use event.clientX and event.clientY to set the location of the div to the location of the cursor:
window.addEventListener('mousemove', function(event){
x = event.clientX;
y = event.clientY;
if ( typeof x !== 'undefined' ){
bsDiv.style.left = x + "px";
bsDiv.style.top = y + "px";
}
}, false);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="box-shadow-div"></div>
</body>
</html>
I chose position: fixed; so scrolling wouldn't be an issue.
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This works for me. Has a nice delayed action going on.
var $mouseX = 0, $mouseY = 0;
var $xp = 0, $yp =0;
$(document).mousemove(function(e){
$mouseX = e.pageX;
$mouseY = e.pageY;
});
var $loop = setInterval(function(){
// change 12 to alter damping higher is slower
$xp += (($mouseX - $xp)/12);
$yp += (($mouseY - $yp)/12);
$("#moving_div").css({left:$xp +'px', top:$yp +'px'});
}, 30);
Nice and simples
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