Detect mouse location etc....

[abrogard]

I need a routine to detect the mouse location on a click. Test that location against a table of locations meant to emulate imagemap areas and to jump to an URL on a match for a particular location.

What's happening is that I have a webpage with a fixed background and text scrolling over the top of it. (mbccc.net)

I wanted to use an imagemap on the background and jump to locations from clicks on the imagemap. But you can't have links on a background.

So I've figured this is the way to do it.

Please excuse me for asking but Javascript is not my area of expertise.

regards,

ab

[MikeHopley]

That sounds like an accessibility/usability disaster.

Image maps are bad enough, but you want a fake one that is entirely dependent on javascript?

Wouldn't it be better to make a real image map with fixed positioning, and simply overlay the content with a higher z-index (and a transparent background)? That way at least you can use real links, not nasty, faked javascript links.

Of course, you'd then need a hack for IE6 fixed positioning. Ugh. What a mess.

The best solution would be to abandon the whole idea. It sounds terrible. Do you really want your navigation items to be partially obscured by your content?