Click through div to underlying elements

Question

I have a div that has background:transparent, along with border. Underneath this div, I have more elements.

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Answer 1

I currently work with canvas speech balloons. But because the balloon with the pointer is wrapped in a div, some links under it aren't click able anymore. I cant use extjs in this case. See basic example for my speech balloon tutorial requires HTML5

So I decided to collect all link coordinates from inside the balloons in an array.

var clickarray=[];
function getcoo(thatdiv){
         thatdiv.find(".link").each(function(){
                 var offset=$(this).offset();           
                 clickarray.unshift([(offset.left),
                                     (offset.top),
                                     (offset.left+$(this).width()),
                                     (offset.top+$(this).height()),
                                     ($(this).attr('name')),
                                     1]);
                                     });
         }

I call this function on each (new) balloon. It grabs the coordinates of the left/top and right/down corners of a link.class - additionally the name attribute for what to do if someone clicks in that coordinates and I loved to set a 1 which means that it wasn't clicked jet. And unshift this array to the clickarray. You could use push too.

To work with that array:

$("body").click(function(event){
          event.preventDefault();//if it is a a-tag
          var x=event.pageX;
          var y=event.pageY;
          var job="";
          for(var i in clickarray){
              if(x>=clickarray[i][0] && x<=clickarray[i][2] && y>=clickarray[i][1] && y<=clickarray[i][3] && clickarray[i][5]==1){
                 job=clickarray[i][4];
                 clickarray[i][5]=0;//set to allready clicked
                 break;
                }
             }
          if(job.length>0){   
             // --do some thing with the job --
            }
          });

This function proofs the coordinates of a body click event or whether it was already clicked and returns the name attribute. I think it is not necessary to go deeper, but you see it is not that complicate. Hope in was enlish...