Inline style to act as :hover in CSS

Question

I know that embedding CSS styles directly into the HTML tags they affect defeats much of the purpose of CSS, but sometimes it\'s useful for debugging purposes, as in:

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Answer 1

I'm afraid it can't be done, the pseudo-class selectors can't be set in-line, you'll have to do it on the page or on a stylesheet.

I should mention that technically you should be able to do it according to the CSS spec, but most browsers don't support it

Edit: I just did a quick test with this:

<a href="test.html" style="{color: blue; background: white} 
            :visited {color: green}
            :hover {background: yellow}
            :visited:hover {color: purple}">Test</a>

And it doesn't work in IE7, IE8 beta 2, Firefox or Chrome. Can anyone else test in any other browsers?

Answer 2

If that <p> tag is created from JavaScript, then you do have another option: use JSS to programmatically insert stylesheets into the document head. It does support '&:hover'. https://cssinjs.org/

Answer 3

A simple solution:

   <a href="#" onmouseover="this.style.color='orange';" onmouseout="this.style.color='';">My Link</a>

Or

<script>
 /** Change the style **/
 function overStyle(object){
    object.style.color = 'orange';
    // Change some other properties ...
 }

 /** Restores the style **/
 function outStyle(object){
    object.style.color = 'orange';
    // Restore the rest ...
 }
</script>

<a href="#" onmouseover="overStyle(this)" onmouseout="outStyle(this)">My Link</a>

Answer 4

If you are only debugging, you might use javascript to modify the css:

<a onmouseover="this.style.textDecoration='underline';" 
    onmouseout="this.style.textDecoration='none';">bar</a>

Answer 5

I put together a quick solution for anyone wanting to create hover popups without CSS using the onmouseover and onmouseout behaviors.

http://jsfiddle.net/Lk9w1mkv/

<div style="position:relative;width:100px;background:#ddffdd;overflow:hidden;" onmouseover="this.style.overflow='';" onmouseout="this.style.overflow='hidden';">first hover<div style="width:100px;position:absolute;top:5px;left:110px;background:white;border:1px solid gray;">stuff inside</div></div>

Answer 6

If it's for debugging, just add a css class for hovering (since elements can have more than one class):

a.hovertest:hover
{
text-decoration:underline;
}

<a href="http://example.com" class="foo bar hovertest">blah</a>