Detect IF hovering over element with jQuery

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I m not looking for an action to call when hovering  but instead a way to tell if an element is being hovered over currently  For instance       elem   mouseIsOver       returns true or false   Is there a jQuery method that accomplishes this

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I like the first response  but for me it s weird  When attempting to check just after page load for the mouse  I have to put in at least a 500 millisecond delay for it to work     window  on  load   function         setTimeout function                img hover   fadeOut   fadeIn           500         http   codepen io molokoloco pen Grvkx

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Couple updates to add after working on this subject for a while    all solutions with  is   hover   break on jQuery 1 9 1 The most likely reason to check if the mouse is still over an element is to attempt to prevent events firing over each other   For example  we were having issues with our mouseleave being triggered and completed before our mouseenter event even completed  Of course this was because of a quick mouse movement    We used hoverIntent https   github com briancherne jquery-hoverIntent to solve the issue for us  Essentially it triggers if the mouse movement is more deliberate   one thing to note is that it will trigger on both mouse entering an element and leaving - if you only want to use one pass the constructor an empty function

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Use   var hovered       parent   find   element hover   length    jQuery 1 9

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Expanding on  Mohamed s answer  You could use a little encapsulation  Like this   jQuery fn mouseIsOver   function          if   this 0   is   hover                  return true            return false        Use it like        elem   mouseIsOver     returns true or false   Forked the fiddle  http   jsfiddle net cgWdF 1

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The accepted answer didn t work for me on JQuery 2 x  is   hover   returns false on every call   I ended up with a pretty simple solution that works   function isHovered selector         return   selector   hover   length  gt  0

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It does not work in jQuery 1 9   Made this plugin based on user2444818 s answer   jQuery fn mouseIsOver   function          return   this  parent   find   this  selector     hover   length  gt  0        http   jsfiddle net Wp2v4 1

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Set a flag on hover   var over   false      elem   hover function       over   true     function        over   false        Then just check your flag

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Original  And Correct  Answer   You can use is   and check for the selector  hover   var isHovered       elem   is   hover       returns true or false   Example  http   jsfiddle net Meligy 2kyaJ 3    This only works when the selector matches ONE element max  See Edit 3 for more      Edit 1  June 29  2013    Applicable to jQuery 1 9 x only  as it works with 1 10   see next Edit 2   This answer was the best solution at the time the question was answered  This   hover  selector was removed with the  hover   method removal in jQuery 1 9 x   Interestingly a recent answer by  allicarn  shows it s possible to use  hover as CSS selector  vs  Sizzle  when you prefix it with a selector     this  selector     hover   length  gt  0  and it seems to work   Also  hoverIntent plugin mentioned in a another answer looks very nice as well   Edit 2  September 21  2013    is   hover   works  Based on another comment I have noticed that the original way I posted   is   hover    actually still works in jQuery  so    It worked in jQuery 1 7 x  It stopped working in 1 9 1  when someone reported it to me  and we all thought it was related to jQuery removing the hover alias for event handling in that version  It worked again in jQuery 1 10 1 and 2 0 2  maybe 2 0 x   which suggests that the failure in 1 9 x was a bug or so not an intentional behaviour as we thought in the previous point    If you want to test this in a particular jQuery version  just open the JSFidlle example at the beginning of this answer  change to the desired jQuery version and click  Run   If the colour changes on hover  it works      Edit 3  March 9  2014   It only works when the jQuery sequence contains a single element  As shown by  Wilmer in the comments  he has a fiddle which doesn t even work against jQuery versions I and others here tested it against  When I tried to find what s special about his case I noticed that he was trying to check multiple elements at a time  This was throwing Uncaught Error  Syntax error  unrecognized expression  unsupported pseudo  hover   So  working with his fiddle  this does NOT work   var isHovered         up   down   filter   hover   length    While this DOES work   var isHovered         up  down                        filter function     return   this  is   hover       length    It also works with jQuery sequences that contain a single element  like if the original selector matched only one element  or if you called  first   on the results  etc   This is also referenced at my JavaScript   Web Dev Tips  amp  Resources Newsletter

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https   api jquery com hover  Asynchronous function in line 38      quot  class id quot    hover function       Your javascript

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Setting a flag per kinakuta s answer seems reasonable  you can put a listener on the body so you can check if any element is being hovered over at a particular instant   However  how do you want to deal with child nodes  You should perhaps check if the element is an ancestor of the currently hovered element    lt script gt   var isOver    function       var overElement    return           Set the  over  element     set  function e          overElement   e target    e srcElement                 Return the current  over  element     get  function           return overElement                     Check if element is the current  over  element     check  function element          return element    overElement                 Check if element is  or an ancestor of  the         current  over  element     checkAll  function element          while  overElement parentNode             if  element    overElement  return true           overElement   overElement parentNode                return false                        Check every second if p0 is being hovered over window setInterval  function       var el   document getElementById  p0      document getElementById  msg   innerHTML   isOver checkAll el      1000      lt  script gt    lt body onmouseover  isOver set event    gt     lt div gt Here is a div      lt p id  p0  gt Here is a p in the div lt span gt  here is a span in the p lt  span gt  foo bar  lt  p gt     lt  div gt     lt div id  msg  gt  lt  div gt   lt  body gt

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You can filter your elment from all hovered elements  Problematic code   element filter   hover     Save code   jQuery   hover   filter element    To return boolean   jQuery   hover   filter element  length   0

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