Possible? — A div overlay which is completely ignored by mouse events (so that mouse events effect only the div below)

Question

I have a google map in an iframe and wrapped in a div. Above that div, i have another, which serves to create a recessed shadow effect.

The problem is that this overlayed div will take priority of any mouse events, so it renders the interactive google map below useless. There must be a way I can make the overlayed div ignore mouse events, letting the div below get them. (please, please!)

Or, is there another way to do it?

here's the code being output:

<div id="pageWrapper" style="display: block; ">
    <div class="page_content">
        <div id="pageShadow"></div>
        <div id="pageMap"><p><iframe width="1096" height="462" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Baked+Beans+B.V.+i.o.,+Amsterdam,+Nederland&amp;sll=52.365721,4.891641&amp;sspn=0.008648,0.022724&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=baked+beans+bv+io&amp;hnear=Amsterdam,+North+Holland,+The+Netherlands&amp;ll=52.363837,4.891109&amp;spn=0.01664,0.045447&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=near&amp;cid=2617758725349562441&amp;output=embed"></iframe></p>
</div>
    </div>

    <div id="page_description">
        <p>Text about the company</p>
    </div>

    <div id="page_credits">

        <div class="recTitle">Job 1</div>
        <div class="recJob"><p>Description</p>
</div>

        <div class="recTitle">Job 2</div>
        <div class="recJob"><p>Description</p>
</div>

        <div class="recTitle"></div>
        <div class="recJob"></div>

    </div>

</div>

Here's the relevant CSS:

#pageWrapper {
position: relative;
}

.page_content {
max-height: 462px;
position: relative;
}

#pageShadow {
position: absolute;
top:0;
left: 0;
-moz-opacity: .5;
opacity:.5;
filter: alpha(opacity=50);  
background-color: aqua;
z-index: 300;
min-height:462px;
min-width: 1096px;
}

#pageMap {
position: absolute;
top:0;
left: 0;
z-index: 299;
min-height:462px;
min-width: 1096px;
}

.recTitle {
color: #333;
font-size: 21px;
font-family: 'ProximaNovaLight', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
padding-left: 3px;
padding-bottom: 16px;
}

.recTitle:first-child {
padding-top: 10px;
}

.recJob {
padding-left: 3px;
padding-bottom: 30px;
}

#page_description {
position: absolute;
top:462px;
font-family: 'ProximaNovaLight', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
float:left;
width:792px;
padding: 15px;
padding-top:20px;
line-height: 22px;
font-weight: normal;
min-height: 345px;
background-color: white;
}

#page_credits {
position: absolute;
top:462px;  
left:822px;
padding: 15px 10px 15px 10px;
float:right;
width:254px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
min-height: 350px;  
}

And here's the effect I'm trying to attain: (the shadow effect on the top) div overlay http://baked-beans.tv/bb/wp-content/uploads/site-dev/google-map-inner-shadow-div-overlay.jpg

Answer 1

It is possible in Firefox 3.6+ thanks to its support for the "pointer-events" property, as explained in this post at Mozilla Hacks:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/12/pointer-events-for-html-in-firefox-3-6/

There may be support in Webkit browsers, as mentioned in this post at CSS-Tricks:

http://css-tricks.com/pointer-events-current-nav/

But not in IE or Opera.