I want to get a red outline around different divs on a page when I
hover the mouse over them, and then have the red outline disappear on
mouse out (basically to indicate that various elements on the page are
"active"). Does anyone know how to do this, or know the best way to
do this? Any help with this would be fantastic.
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I'm thinking of doing it this way: when I hover over an element, I
find the dimensions (width/height) and location (top/left) of that
element, and then create a transparent div with a thick red border,
then set the dimensions and location of that div to the existing div
I'm hovering over, and finally make the red outline div appear
(display: block); onmouseout, the red outline div would disappear
(display: none). In theory, this sounds good, but implementing it
cross-browser or at all gives some not-so-desirable results (e.g.
there's something going on with the mouseover and mouseout - the red
border div flickers when I hover over an element). It would be nice
if I could just use the outline css property, but unfortunately, I
don't think it's cross-browser.
