I need to create a shim for the entire page to capture click events, but the shim must not stop other events like mouseover etc on the other html elements on the page.
I have solution that sort of works, but I am having a couple of problems with it: Whenever I click on the page, if I click directly on some text, the click event of the shim does not fire (there is no event-cancelling on the page).
The onclick problem only occurs in IE.
In FF and Chrome there is a problem with the mouseover events not being fired in the background, so I would of course appreciate any tips on solving that as well...
Here is a very basic example demonstrating the problem.
Any ideas? :-)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-size:20px;
height:100%;
}
#shim
{
position: absolute;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
zindex: 1;
}
#trace
{
border: 1px solid #ccc;
height: 100px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function trace(e) {
e = e || event;
document.getElementById('trace').innerHTML = "Hovered innerHTML: " + (e.target || e.srcElement).innerHTML;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="shim" onclick="alert('shim clicked')">
</div>
<table border="1" onmouseover="trace(event)">
<tr>
<td>
AAAAAA AAAAAA
</td>
<td>
BBBBBB BBBBB
</td>
<td>
CCCCCCCC CCCCC
</td>
<td>
DDDDDD DDDDDDDDDD
</td>
<td>
EEEEEE EEEE
</td>
<td>
FFFFFF FFFFF
</td>
<td>
GGGG GGGGGGGG
</td>
<td>
EEEE EEEE
</td>
<td>
FFFF FFFFFF
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="trace">
</div>
</body>
</html>