Making Info Box Stick

[Distortion]

Ok I admit, I stole half of this code because of the browser support. This shows a box containing more info about the link you are about to click. I want this box to appear where the mouse was, but I don't want it to follow my mouse. The box pops up and goes away when the mouse leaves the box. Unfortunately the box either shows up at the top left of the page or follows my mouse. How do I set the mouse to be recorded once...This is what is in the body tags:

<div id="popbox" ONMOUSEOUT="kill()"></div><script type="text/javascript"><!--Xoffset=-120;Yoffset=-60;   var old,skn,iex=(document.all),yyy=-1000;var ns4=document.layersvar ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.allvar ie4=document.allvar show=0if (show==0) {document.onmousemove=get_mouse;}if (ns4)skn=document.popboxelse if (ns6)skn=document.getElementById("popbox").styleelse if (ie4)skn=document.all.popbox.styleif(ns4)document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);else{skn.visibility="visible"skn.display="none"}function popup(msg,img,fixed){var content="<div id='popimage'><img src='"+img+"' alt='nopic' /></div><div id='poptext'>"+msg+"</div>";yyy=Yoffset;show=fixed; if(ns4){skn.document.write(content);skn.document.close();skn.visibility="visible"} if(ns6){document.getElementById("popbox").innerHTML=content;skn.display=''} if(ie4){document.all("popbox").innerHTML=content;skn.display=''}}function get_mouse(e){var x=(ns4||ns6)?e.pageX:event.x+document.body.scrollLeft;skn.left=x+Xoffset;var y=(ns4||ns6)?e.pageY:event.y+document.body.scrollTop;skn.top=y+yyy;}function kill(){yyy=-1000;if(ns4){skn.visibility="hidden";}else if (ns6||ie4)skn.display="none"show=0}//--></script><a href="http://blehbleh.com" onmouseover="popup('text','image',1)">Shows a box</a>

[Distortion]

fixed. But I don't know why it works... instead of document.onmousemove i used document.onmouseover and put it in the popup function.

[mellisande]

onmousemove is triggered whenever the mouse moves while inside the element's boundaries. So if you move the mouse while it's over the element, then it triggers the function again, which recreates your popup at the mouse's new position.onmouseover is triggered whenever the mouse enters the element's boundaries. In order to trigger it again you need to move the mouse off of the element and then back on.That's why it works the way you wanted when you used onmouseover and not when you used onmousemove.