Hiding the mouse cursor when idle using JavaScript

Question

Is it possible to use JavaScript to set the cursor attribute to the property none if the mouse is inactive for a certain amount of time (say, five seco

Answer 1

This worked for me (taken from https://gist.github.com/josephwegner/1228975).

Note reference to an html element with id wrapper.

//Requires jQuery - http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.4.min.js
$(document).ready(function() { 


    var idleMouseTimer;
    var forceMouseHide = false;

    $("body").css('cursor', 'none');

    $("#wrapper").mousemove(function(ev) {
            if(!forceMouseHide) {
                    $("body").css('cursor', '');

                    clearTimeout(idleMouseTimer);

                    idleMouseTimer = setTimeout(function() {
                            $("body").css('cursor', 'none');

                            forceMouseHide = true;
                            setTimeout(function() {
                                    forceMouseHide = false;
                            }, 200);
                    }, 1000);
            }
    });
});