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

I have found a simple work-around to intermittent no-cursor problem, is to create a transparent

as the last element on the page, and set the css style properties to:

#overlay{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-color: transparent;
cursor: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}

Make the javascript change the visibility to either "visible" or "hidden". A "visible" layer will hide the cursor. Vice-versa with hidden layer.