Examples on JavaScript: move text

<html>
<head>
<title>Move text with mouse</title>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
function blockError(){return true;}
window.onerror = blockError;
</script>

<style>
.spanstyle {
position:absolute;
visibility:visible;
top:-50px;
font-size:9pt;
font-family:verdana;
font-weight:bold;
color:darkblue;
}
</style>

<script language="javascript">
var x,y
var step=20
var flag=0

var message="Move text Along with Mousee"
message=message.split("")

var xpos=new Array()
for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) {
xpos[i]=-50
}

var ypos=new Array()
for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) {
ypos[i]=-50
}

function handlerMM(e){
x = (document.layers) ? e.pageX : document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX
y = (document.layers) ? e.pageY : document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY
flag=1
}

function makesnake() {
if (flag==1 && document.all) {
for (i=message.length-1; i>=1; i--) {
xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+step
ypos[i]=ypos[i-1]
}
xpos[0]=x+step
ypos[0]=y

for (i=0; i<message.length-1; i++) {
var thisspan = eval("span"+(i)+".style")
thisspan.posLeft=xpos[i]
thisspan.posTop=ypos[i]
}
}

else if (flag==1 && document.layers) {
for (i=message.length-1; i>=1; i--) {
xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+step
ypos[i]=ypos[i-1]
}
xpos[0]=x+step
ypos[0]=y

for (i=0; i<message.length-1; i++) {
var thisspan = eval("document.span"+i)
thisspan.left=xpos[i]
thisspan.top=ypos[i]
}
}
var timer=setTimeout("makesnake()",30)
}

</script>

</head>
<body onload="makesnake()" bgcolor="lightyellow" text="blue" link="#00FF00" alink="#00FF00">

<script>
<!-- Beginning of JavaScript -

for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) {
document.write("<span id='span"+i+"' class='spanstyle'>")
document.write(message[i])
document.write("</span>")
}

if(document.layers)
{
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
}
document.onmousemove=handlerMM;
</script>

</body>
</html>

Javascript: Move Text Along with Mouse

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