Last updated on March 1st, 2022 at 03:12 pm
This tutorial covers topic on how to add customizable mouse cursor or mouse pointer trailing text with animation using Javascript.
Before I share with you the complete code, let us break that in to pieces so that you know where to modify. The main section of the code you have to focus is the one shown below
var text='Add your text here....Just text and not htmls';
var delay=40; // SPEED OF TRAIL
var Xoff=0; // PIXEL COUNT FROM THE LEFT OF THE CURSOR (- VALUES GO TO LEFT)
var Yoff=-30; // PIXEL COUNT FROM THE TOP OF THE CURSOR (- VALUES GO UP)
var txtw=14; // AMOUNT OF PIXEL SPACE EACH CHARACTER OCCUPIES
var beghtml='<font color="#00ffff"><b>'; // OPTIONAL HTML CODE THAT EFFECTS WHOLE TEXT STRING SUCH AS FONT COLOR, SIZE, ETC.
var endhtml='</b></font>'; // END HTML CODE. MOSTLY USED IF ABOVE SETTING IS USED.
As you can see there is variable defined for color, text , speed etc., Modify it as per your requirement and the rest will be taken care by the function.
Here is the complete code, add it to your website header and see the magic.
<script language="javascript">
var text='Add your text here....Just text and not htmls';
var delay=40; // SPEED OF TRAIL
var Xoff=0; // PIXEL COUNT FROM THE LEFT OF THE CURSOR (- VALUES GO TO LEFT)
var Yoff=-30; // PIXEL COUNT FROM THE TOP OF THE CURSOR (- VALUES GO UP)
var txtw=14; // AMOUNT OF PIXEL SPACE EACH CHARACTER OCCUPIES
var beghtml='<font color="#00ffff"><b>'; // OPTIONAL HTML CODE THAT EFFECTS WHOLE TEXT STRING SUCH AS FONT COLOR, SIZE, ETC.
var endhtml='</b></font>'; // END HTML CODE. MOSTLY USED IF ABOVE SETTING IS USED.
ns4 = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && document.layers)? true : false;
ie4 = (document.all && !document.getElementById)? true : false;
ie5 = (document.all && document.getElementById)? true : false;
ns6 = (document.getElementById && navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 )? true: false;
var txtA=new Array();
text=text.split('');
var x1=0;
var y1=-1000;
var t='';
for(i=1;i<=text.length;i++){
t+=(ns4)? '<layer name="txt'+i+'" top="-100" left="0" width="'+txtw+'" height="1">' : '<div id="txt'+i+'" style="position:absolute; top:-100px; left:0px; height:1px; width:'+txtw+'; visibility:visible;">';
t+=beghtml+text[i-1]+endhtml;
t+=(ns4)? '' : '</div>';
}
document.write(t);
function moveid(id,x,y){
if(ns4)id.moveTo(x,y);
else{
id.style.left=x+'px';
id.style.top=y+'px';
}}
function animate(evt){
x1=Xoff+((ie4||ie5)?event.clientX+document.body.scrollLeft:evt.pageX);
y1=Yoff+((ie4||ie5)?event.clientY+document.body.scrollTop:evt.pageY);
}
function getidleft(id){
if(ns4)return id.left;
else return parseInt(id.style.left);
}
function getidtop(id){
if(ns4)return id.top;
else return parseInt(id.style.top);
}
function getwindowwidth(){
if(ie4||ie5)return document.body.clientWidth+document.body.scrollLeft;
else return window.innerWidth+pageXOffset;
}
function movetxts(){
for(i=text.length;i>1;i=i-1){
if(getidleft(txtA[i-1])+txtw*2>=getwindowwidth()){
moveid(txtA[i-1],0,-1000);
moveid(txtA[i],0,-1000);
}else moveid(txtA[i], getidleft(txtA[i-1])+txtw, getidtop(txtA[i-1]));
}
moveid(txtA[1],x1,y1);
}
window.onload=function(){
for(i=1;i<=text.length;i++)
txtA[i]=(ns4)?document.layers['txt'+i]:(ie4)?document.all['txt'+i]:document.getElementById('txt'+i);
if(ns4)document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
document.onmousemove=animate;
setInterval('movetxts()',delay);
}
</script>
<body bgcolor=#000>
<font color=#fff>
<h2>This is a test website with a mouse pointer following you </h2></font></body>
Works without any issue on latest version of Firefox , Chrome and Safari (Last Tested Feb 15 2022)
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