CSS/Javascript Swinging Box - javascript

I have a menu box that contains a few links to pages. I'd like it so that if the user "bumps" it with their cursor, the box reacts and jerks slightly (swings in direction mouse 'pushed' it) and then swings back and forth until it comes to a stop. The menu is in a div, and I need the contents to stay in their relative position to the menu (though rotating with it I guess).
How can I accomplish this using Javascript? Preferably not CSS.

How can I accomplish this using Javascript?
You need a function that listens for mouse movements and reports its position. It then compares the cursor position to the positional bounds of the menu. If its within your thresholds you would then reposition/rotate the menu relative to the cursor's approach vector.

How about using jQuery Bounce? There is a similar question here: JQuery UI bounce effect - bounce only once on entering div that might help.

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JavaScript drag n drop XY location when dropped is off due to point in drag element

I am trying to create a drag and drop application when I can drop a marker on an image. While this is an Angular app I am using plain old JS API for the drag and drop do to issues with CDK.
I am able to move a 20x20 div around the image and drop it and set the location on the image by setting the top/left style of the div. However, the problem I am having is that the offset[XY] is the point of the mouse down. So if I grab the upper left corning my div lands where I expect. If I grab the div in the middle, then it is off by the drag point offset.
How can I correct for this offset of the draggable? Or is there a better solution?
One of my coworkers came up with a great solution. Subscribe to the mousedown event to find the offset and then do the math.

Change div position ontouchdrag (if such an event is usable)

Basically, I have a web page which is a div inside a div. Let's say that div 1 (the container) is 500px high. Div 2 is 100px high inside of that container. What I want to do is detect the user touching div 2 on the screen (this is a web page on a mobile phone) and as they drag up/down, the div moves with them. I've done some research and have seen this being done using matrix3d and transform y in CSS 3 (but I can't find a good explanation for someone with little experience with this sort of thing such as myself). I want it so that, let's say, the user drags the second div to the bottom and some of the content goes outside of the container div. I don't want it to scroll down, I do want it to disappear... BUT I want it to kind of 'bounce' back into view. So here's the breakdown.
user presses the screen
user drags div 2 which is inside of div 1. As they drag the div, it moves in the direction of their drag.
the user can drag the div right to the top/bottom. If they drag it outside of the container div, that's fine. The container div should not resize or become scrollable and part of div 2 should disappear from view.
when the user releases the drag, the div should bounce back into position. Let's say, if it is dragged too high up, it bounces back to position 100, 100. If it's dragged too far down then it bounces back to 100, 500 (I figure the bounce can be controlled by a CSS transition).
So, does anyone have an example that I can look at to see this in action or a tutorial that will help me understand how I can achieve this? I apologise for not providing any code as a basis to start from, but in truth, I don't really know where to start myself.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
The safari dev docs are your friend:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/HandlingEvents/HandlingEvents.html
Checkout the the touch move section for moving a div, for your case you want to set conditionals for if the user goes outside the bounds of your outer div, and disable scrolling using overflow hidden.

How can I implement an opacity gradient across multiple selectable images in a grid/carousel?

long time listener, first time caller.
I have a matrix of icons that can be navigated horizontally in a carousel, and vertically as categories (which are rows of icons) that are detached/appended as the app cycles through the categories with up/down arrows.
I want to make the lowest row of icons fade in opacity (I have a black background) from the native colors of the icons into blackness as you go from top to bottom, to indicate that there are subsequent rows beneath. The only way I have been able to determine how to do this is using background: -webkit-gradient, as indicated here:
CSS3 Transparency + Gradient
I apply this to a DIV which I overlay above my lowest row. Unfortunately, I lose clickability of the items behind the overlaid div. I have to use the overlay, however, because the property is a background property.
Is there any other way I can implement a gradient opacity on a row of clickable icons that fades to black without sacrificing the clickability? I don't want an overlay that only covers the lower 25%/whatever either... I need an all-or-nothing solution to this. So far it's looking like "nothing" is my only option.
Thank you very much in advance.
Hmmm... two solutions come to mind.
First, you could use the overlay, and track mouse events on that element. Then, with some math, you could probably figure out what the underlying element is use jQuery to trigger the click of that element (ie. $("#icon14").click(); ).
The second option would be to draw out a companion transparent div with each icon you make in your matrix. Place it in exactly the same spot as the icon itself, but give it a css z-index that brings it above the overlay. This transparent div can now handle all the mouse events for you, and still live above the overlay.
If you go down this road, I'd look into using the .data() function that lets you quickly tack on variables to any jQuery object. You can set this companion div to be a property of the normal icons in the matrix, with something like $("#icon14").data('clickDiv', $("#icon14_click")); (though you'd probably want to assign these in a loop or something =)
Good luck!

Move Mouse Cursor Javascript

I'm building a joke microsite for a company. They want a feature where the mouse cursor will randomly change position when the user hovers over a certain image.
Is this possible in Javascript? How would I implement it?
Thanks!
You can't... but you can - in a way.
What you can do to mimic this behavior is that you can hide the actual cursor with css cursor: none and then create an image representing the cursor which would look the same and would be placed in position of the real cursor. Then whe user would move the mouse you'd have to update the position of the cursor image and apply your random position changes as you wish - though be aware that when user will scroll outside of the browser content window (on the controls or outside the browser) they will get their mouse cursor back to real position and your cursor will be stuck in its last position.
The only way you could pull this prank out. Good luck with it and hope they'll enjoy it ;)
PS.
inverting the mouse movement direction can be funny as well :>
You can't move the mouse cursor.
You can move the page or the image relative to the position of the cursor, which might make it look like the cursor moved when it didn't?
You can change your cursor with invisible custom icon, and then make a fake cursor and move it.

Making overlay <div> that stays in position after zoom-resize using HTML-CSS only

I my working on the site that will have image gallery. Designer idea was to make buttons that switch photos be above the photos a bit.
Like this
Example http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/1253/showq.png
Currently I've made a javascript solution to this - it gets position of photo and applies absolute positioning to the button divs. There are some drawbacks - it works unstable in Opera and IE. Also I had to make some dirty haxx to make it stay in position after zooming. I wonder if there is a better way to do this, preferably without javascript.
you mean like here ? (dutch website, see photo browser in the center column at the top)
browser zooming works fine in browsers like firefox and safari because they zoom all the content and recorrect pixel-values. To make zooming work in ie(6) you'd need to style all in em's. But browser zooming is crappy for pixel data anyways…
Absolute positioning of the buttons (left 0 and right 0) is not a problem as long as the container element is positioned relative.
If I understand you correctly, you're trying to center those arrow buttons vertically in relation to the image. This is pretty easily accomplished with just CSS (no javascript required). Here's an example.
The basic idea is that you're using a couple of divs plus some absolute/relative positioning. There's an outer div that drops the top of the whole thing to the center of the parent element and then an inner div that pulls up your content so that the content is centered and not the top of the element.
A popular technique is to split the whole image into two huge (mostly transparent) links. The left half of the photo would take you to the previous image, the right to the next.
Of course you position you images of buttons appropriately and they would move around but I assume the problem you're finding is you have to keep moving your mouse to go through lots of images as the buttons move.... Well with this idea, you only need keep your mouse near the middle, and it should remain over the photo (and therefore a direction).
Example: http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/dreamhomespshop/1008251500
Mouse-over the image and you'll see it's active the complete way across. Not quite the same as your implementation, I'm sure, but the concept applies.

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