Wupps, wrong page. The page I got the code off of should have been
http://www.hypergurl.com/trailingtext.html
and not
http://www.hypergurl.com/elasticcursor.html.
Bill
"Bill" <fred_barney@bigmailbox.net> wrote in message
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> I'm using code from
http://www.hypergurl.com/elasticcursor.html to make a
> small mouse tail with some text. When I originally designed my page using
> tables to format it the code worked perfectly. I've recently been
> redesigning the page to use only css to format so I can keep all of the
> non-content stuff out of the main html code but I've run into a problem.
> Before if you scrolled down the page the text kept up with the mouse,[/color]
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> just behind it, now with the tables gone if I scroll down the text gets
> offset above the cursor the amount that I've scrolled the screen. It does
> the same if I scroll horizontally by putting the text ahead of the cursor
> the same amount I've scrolled left. I'm not that conversant with
> JavaScript, but I'm trying, so could someone either tell me what is the
> likely problem or at least point me in the right direction so I can figure
> it out myself? I've emailed the author of the original code but so far no
> response so I'm hoping I can get some enlightenment here.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill
>
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