How do I check if the mouse is over an element in jQuery?

Question

Is there a quick & easy way to do this in jQuery that I\'m missing?

I don\'t want to use the mouseover event because I\'m already using it for something else. I

Answer 1

WARNING: is(':hover') is deprecated in jquery 1.8+. See this post for a solution.

You can also use this answer : https://stackoverflow.com/a/6035278/8843 to test if the mouse is hover an element :

$('#test').click(function() {
    if ($('#hello').is(':hover')) {
        alert('hello');
    }
});

Answer 2

You can test with jQuery if any child div has a certain class. Then by applying that class when you mouse over and out out a certain div, you can test whether your mouse is over it, even when you mouse over a different element on the page Much less code this way. I used this because I had spaces between divs in a pop-up, and I only wanted to close the pop up when I moved off of the pop up, not when I was moving my mouse over the spaces in the pop up. So I called a mouseover function on the content div (which the pop up was over), but it would only trigger the close function when I moused-over the content div, AND was outside the pop up!

$(".pop-up").mouseover(function(e)
    {
    $(this).addClass("over");
    });

$(".pop-up").mouseout(function(e)
    {
    $(this).removeClass("over");
    });


$("#mainContent").mouseover(function(e){
            if (!$(".expanded").hasClass("over")) {
            Drupal.dhtmlMenu.toggleMenu($(".expanded"));
        }
    });

Answer 3

Here's a technique which doesn't rely on jquery and uses the native DOM matches API. It uses vendor prefixes to support browsers going back to IE9. See matchesselector on caniuse.com for full details.

First create the matchesSelector function, like so:

var matchesSelector = (function(ElementPrototype) {
var fn = ElementPrototype.matches ||
          ElementPrototype.webkitMatchesSelector ||
          ElementPrototype.mozMatchesSelector ||
          ElementPrototype.msMatchesSelector;

return function(element, selector) {
  return fn.call(element, selector);
};

})(Element.prototype);

Then, to detect hover:

var mouseIsOver = matchesSelector(element, ':hover');

Answer 4

I have answered this in another question, with all details you may need:

Detect IF hovering over element with jQuery (has 99 upvotes at the time of writing)

Basically, you can do something like:

var ishovered = oi.is(":hover");

This works only if oi is a jQuery object containing a single element. If there are multiple elements matched, you need to apply to each element, for example:

var hoveredItem = !!$('ol>li').filter(function() { return $(this).is(":hover"); });
                  // not .filter(':hover'), as we can't apply :hover on multiple elements

This was tested starting jQuery 1.7.

Answer 5

Here is a function which helps you check if the mouse is inside an element or not. The only thing you should do is to call the function where you can have a live mouse-associated EventObject. something like this:

$("body").mousemove(function(event){
     element_mouse_is_inside($("#mycontainer", event, true, {});
});

You can see the source code here in github or at the bottom of the post:

https://github.com/mostafatalebi/ElementsLocator/blob/master/elements_locator.jquery.js

function element_mouse_is_inside  (elementToBeChecked, mouseEvent, with_margin, offset_object)
{
    if(!with_margin)
    {
        with_margin = false;
    }
    if(typeof offset_object !== 'object')
    {
        offset_object = {};
    }
    var elm_offset = elementToBeChecked.offset();
    var element_width = elementToBeChecked.width();
    element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-left").replace("px", ""));
    element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-right").replace("px", ""));
    var element_height = elementToBeChecked.height();
    element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-top").replace("px", ""));
    element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-bottom").replace("px", ""));
    if( with_margin)
    {
        element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-left").replace("px", ""));
        element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-right").replace("px", ""));
        element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-top").replace("px", ""));
        element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-bottom").replace("px", ""));
    }

    elm_offset.rightBorder = elm_offset.left+element_width;
    elm_offset.bottomBorder = elm_offset.top+element_height;

    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("top"))
    {
        elm_offset.top += parseInt(offset_object.top);
    }
    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("left"))
    {
        elm_offset.left += parseInt(offset_object.left);
    }
    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("bottom"))
    {
        elm_offset.bottomBorder += parseInt(offset_object.bottom);
    }
    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("right"))
    {
        elm_offset.rightBorder += parseInt(offset_object.right);
    }
    var mouseX = mouseEvent.pageX;
    var mouseY = mouseEvent.pageY;

    if(  (mouseX > elm_offset.left && mouseX < elm_offset.rightBorder)
        && (mouseY > elm_offset.top && mouseY < elm_offset.bottomBorder) )
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 6

You can use jQuery's hover event to keep track manually:

$(...).hover(
    function() { $.data(this, 'hover', true); },
    function() { $.data(this, 'hover', false); }
).data('hover', false);

if ($(something).data('hover'))
    //Hovered!