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Cursor Trailer Text

It used to be that a mouse cursor was just a mouse cursor. Since DHTML came along and gave programmers the ability to track the precise coordinates of the mouse, it was only a matter of time that cursor effects started showing up. This is Peter's great cursor text effect. It's pretty self explanatory, not to mention awesome!


Insert into <HEAD>
<style> .spanstyle { position:absolute; visibility:visible; top:-50px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Verdana; font-weight:bold; color:black; } </style> <script> /* Cursor Trailor Text- By Peter Gehrig (http://www.24fun.ch/) Permission given to Dynamicdrive.com to feature script in it's archive. For full source code, installation instructions, and 1000's more DHTML scripts, visit http://dynamicdrive.com */ var x,y var step=20 var flag=0 // Your snappy message. Important: the space at the end of the sentence!!! var message="DYNAMIC DRIVE! " message=message.split("") var xpos=new Array() for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) { xpos[i]=-50 } var ypos=new Array() for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) { ypos[i]=-50 } function handlerMM(e){ x = (document.layers) ? e.pageX : document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX y = (document.layers) ? e.pageY : document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY flag=1 } function makesnake() { if (flag==1 && document.all) { for (i=message.length-1; i>=1; i--) { xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+step ypos[i]=ypos[i-1] } xpos[0]=x+step ypos[0]=y for (i=0; i<message.length-1; i++) { var thisspan = eval("span"+(i)+".style") thisspan.posLeft=xpos[i] thisspan.posTop=ypos[i] } } else if (flag==1 && document.layers) { for (i=message.length-1; i>=1; i--) { xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+step ypos[i]=ypos[i-1] } xpos[0]=x+step ypos[0]=y for (i=0; i<message.length-1; i++) { var thisspan = eval("document.span"+i) thisspan.left=xpos[i] thisspan.top=ypos[i] } } var timer=setTimeout("makesnake()",30) } </script>

Insert into <BODY>
<body onLoad="makesnake()" style="width:100%;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:scroll"> <script> <!-- Beginning of JavaScript - for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) { document.write("<span id='span"+i+"' class='spanstyle'>") document.write(message[i]) document.write("</span>") } if (document.layers){ document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE); } document.onmousemove = handlerMM; // - End of JavaScript - --> </script>

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