Empty div hover event not firing in IE

Question

I have a div with a child div inside it. I\'m using jQuery to show / hide the child div whenever a mouse hovers over the parent div (parent div spans the entire bottom of th

Answer 1

I was able to make use of the "Braille Pattern Blank" which is an invisible, non-whitespace character that is still "there", takes up a space, and allows events like mouseover to still fire. The snippet below shows this (the div isn't zero width as it would be if it were empty or contained only whitespace):

.notActuallyEmpty {
  background-color: gray;
  width:50px;
}

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