Question

I have a map with SVG text elements to name the locations. I want the locations (shapes) to be clickable, and they are, but because the text elements are on top of them, if someone hovers over a text element and clicks, then nothing happens because the shape was not clicked : the text element was. How can I make it so that if the text element is clicked, the click goes “through” it and to the shape ?

Answer 1

Mozilla introduced a CSS property for this purpose called pointer-events. It was originally limited to SVG shapes, but is now supported on most DOM elements in modern browsers:

span.label { pointer-events: none; }

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/pointer-events
• http://caniuse.com/pointer-events

The answer to this question has some good information on achieving the same result in old IE:

css 'pointer-events' property alternative for IE