Question

I have a image where text/link is overlayed on top. My problem is that sometimes the text in the foreground will hide the link in the image in the background. I assume this is because the text box forms an invisible rectangle around the text, thus creating a region that appears it should belong to the image but is actually being covered by the text. I am wondering if it is possible that when I mouse over this region, I will be linking to my image link as oppose to my text link (see illustration).

http://jsfiddle.net/WHpMr/

Answer 1

Try this, i.e. put your tag inside : http://jsfiddle.net/WHpMr/3/

HTML:

<div class="ad">
    <span class="link middle right"><a href="#text" class="inline-link">my text link abcdefg<br>meow<br>meow<br>meow</a></span>
    <a href="#background"><img src="http://www.placekitten.com/320/200"></a>
</div>

CSS:

.ad {
    position: relative;
    height: 200px;
    width: 320px;
}
.link {
    position: absolute;
    padding: 20px;
    pointer-events: none;
}
.inline-link {
    pointer-events: all;
}
.top { top:0%; }
.middle { top:33%; }
.bottom { top:66%; }
.left { text-align:left; left:0%; }
.center { text-align:center; margin:0 auto; width:100%; }
.right { text-align:right; right:0%; }