jQuery animation for a hover with 'mouse direction'

Question

I\'m trying to simulate the effect where I hover on an image an overlayed semi-transparent image will fade in from the direction where your mouse came from. Vice versa when your

Answer 1

Rather than surrounding the image with absolutely positioned divs, you might try doing this with an image map, attaching handlers to the defined areas. Just define the border areas to be thick enough that the mouse movement will be detected even if it's being moved rather quickly.