How to get css hover values on click?

Question

Following up on this question, I have another issue - how to get css hover values when you click on a text link?

For instance, I have these values for the text hover

Answer 1

The right way to do this seems like it would be to create a style tag and re-assign the hover property directly. I have a working example here.

(Credit where credit is due -- I got that from a function defined here)