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

I would do something like this: It will go through and find all else words, and wrap them in a span with a listener bound:

What else would you say?

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​var hello = document.getElementById('hello');
var str = hello.innerHTML;
str = str.replace(​​​ /\b(else)\b/g, '$1' );​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
hello.innerHTML = str;

function func1() {
  alert('there');
}

Check out the fiddle.