I have two HTML documents, b.html
contains c.html
using an iframe
.
On b.html
I need to draw some DIV (in my example id=selector), which partially cover content of c.html
visualized in the iframe
.
I need to get the ID of a DOM element corresponding to the mouse coordinate under the DIV selector.
At the moment Using document.elementFromPoint()
directly in in c.html
works partially, as when the mouse it is on DIV selector I cannot identify the underling DOM element in c.html
(in this example DIV c).
I would need to know:
- Is it possible to select element under another, using document.elementFromPoint() or any other means?
- What could be a possible alternatively solution possibly using DOM and native API?
Example here (Please look at the console in Chrome):
http://jsfiddle.net/s94cnckm/5/
----------------------------------------------- b.html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>B</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.app = {
start: function () {
}
};
</script>
<style>
#selector {
position: absolute;
top: 150px;
left: 150px;
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 5px yellow;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 5px yellow;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 5px yellow;
}
#iframe {
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
border: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body onload="app.start();">
<div id="selector">SELECTOR</div>
<iframe id="iframe" src="c.html"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
----------------------------------------------- c.html
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>C</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.app = {
start: function () {
document.querySelector('body').addEventListener('mousemove', function (event) {
//console.log(event.pageX, event.pageY, event.target.id);
var item = document.elementFromPoint(event.pageX, event.pageY);
console.log(item.id);
}.bind(this));
}
};
</script>
<style>
body {
background-color: lightslategray;
}
#a {
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
left: 50px;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-color: green;
z-index: 2;
}
#b {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-color: #ffd800;
z-index: 1;
}
</style>
</head>
<body onload="app.start();">
<h1>Content</h1>
<div id="a">a</div>
<div id="b">b</div>
</body>
</html>
Another possible solution, is to capture the document coordinates of a mouse event fired on the masking item(DIV.selector), momentarily hide that masking item, and then ask the document what is under that coordinate position (using document.elementFromPoint(x,y)) before showing the masking item again.
The support for document.elementFromPoint() cover also old version of IE. Unfortunately pointer-events has limited support for older version of IE.
Here a working example:
http://jsfiddle.net/s94cnckm/14/
Regarding the use of
pointer-events
I link to mention some related article, included a work around for older version of IE.How to make Internet Explorer emulate pointer-events:none?
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/pointer-events/
http://davidwalsh.name/pointer-events
http://robertnyman.com/2010/03/22/css-pointer-events-to-allow-clicks-on-underlying-elements/
This solution was inspired by this article:
http://www.vinylfox.com/forwarding-mouse-events-through-layers/
A possible soltion is the usage of
pointer-events
.When you apply
All content of
#selector
and the element itself are no more interactive. Content may not be selected and events like:hover
orclick
are not applicable.Here is the demo with the above css: http://jsfiddle.net/s94cnckm/6/