display alert when mouse hovers over word in text

Question

I have been struggling with this for a few days. I need somebody to steer me in the right direction. I have been searching on the web. I am not sure if I took the right approach

Answer 1

Using jQuery lettering plugin

if you were not there, else I would not have won.



$(".word_split").lettering('words');
$('.word_split').mouseover(function(event) {
    var word=event.target.innerHTML;
    if (word == "else")
       alert("Yep");
});

here's a demo: jsFiddle