I need to define a div's background color on :hover with jQuery, but the following doesn't seem to work:
$(".myclass:hover div").css("background-color","red");
How can I get the same result? It's important that it has to be done with jQuery but for some reason it doesn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I would suggest to use CSS over jquery ( if possible) otherwise you can use something like this
$("div.myclass").hover(function() {
$(this).css("background-color","red")
});
You can change your selector as per your need.
As commented by @A.Wolff, If you want to use this hover effect to multiple classes, you can use it like this
$(".myclass, .myclass2").hover(function(e) {
$(this).css("background-color",e.type === "mouseenter"?"red":"transparent")
})
$(".myclass").hover(function(e) { $(this).find('div').css("background-color",e.type === "mouseenter"?"red":"transparent") });
:hover state. So why not simply give them background:redYou can try this:
$(".myclass").mouseover(function() {
$(this).find(" > div").css("background-color","red");
}).mouseout(function() {
$(this).find(" > div").css("background-color","transparent");
});
I know this has an accepted answer but if anyone comes upon this, my solution may help.
I found this question because I have a use-case where I wanted to turn off the :hover state for elements individually. Since there is no way to do this in the DOM, another good way to do it is to define a class in CSS that overrides the hover state.
For instance, the css:
.nohover:hover {
color: black !important;
}
Then with jQuery:
$("#elm").addClass("nohover");
With this method, you can override as many DOM elements as you would like without binding tons of onHover events.
Well, you can't add styling using pseudo selectors like :hover, :after, :nth-child, or anything like that using jQuery.
If you want to add a CSS rule like that you have to create a <style> element and add that :hover rule to it just like you would in CSS. Then you would have to add that <style> element to the page.
Using the .hover function seems to be more appropriate if you can't just add the css to a stylesheet, but if you insist you can do:
$('head').append('<style>.myclass:hover div {background-color : red;}</style>')
If you want to read more on adding CSS with javascript you can check out one of David Walsh's Blog posts.
Use JQuery Hover to add/remove class or style on Hover:
$( "mah div" ).hover(
function() {
$( this ).css("background-color","red");
}, function() {
$( this ).css("background-color",""); //to remove property set it to ''
}
);
It's too late, however the best example, how to add pseudo element in jQuery style
$(document).ready(function(){
$("a.dummy").css({"background":"#003d79","color":"#fff","padding": "5px 10px","border-radius": "3px","text-decoration":"none"});
$("a.dummy").hover(function() {
$(this).css("background-color","#0670c9")
}).mouseout(function(){
$(this).css({"background-color":"#003d79",});
});
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a class="dummy" href="javascript:void()">Just Link</a>
<style>element containing the rule programmatically (with JavaScript) but I'd really like to hear why you can't properly define the rule in your own stylesheet.