[html] Remove ':hover' CSS behavior from element

I have CSS that changes formatting when you hover over an element.

.test:hover { border: 1px solid red; }

<div class="test">blah</div>

In some cases, I don't want to apply CSS on hover. One way would be to just remove the CSS class from the div using jQuery, but that would break other things since I am also using that class to format its child elements.

Is there a way to remove 'hover' css styling from an element?

You want to keep the selector, so adding/removing it won't work. Instead of writing a hard and fast CSS selectors (or two), perhaps you can just use the original selector to apply new CSS rule to that element based on some criterion:

$(".test").hover(
  if(some evaluation) {
    $(this).css('border':0);
  }
);

add a new .css class:

#test.nohover:hover { border: 0 }

and

<div id="test" class="nohover">blah</div>

The more "specific" css rule wins, so this border:0 version will override the generic one specified elsewhere.

One method to do this is to add:

pointer-events: none;

to the element, you want to disable hover on.

(Note: this also disables javascript events on that element too, click events will actually fall through to the element behind ).

Browser Support ( 98.12% as of Jan 1, 2021 )

This seems to be much cleaner

/**
 * This allows you to disable hover events for any elements
*/
.disabled {
  pointer-events: none;  /* <----------- */
  opacity: 0.2;
}

.button {
  border-radius: 30px;
  padding: 10px 15px;
  border: 2px solid #000;
  color: #FFF;
  background: #2D2D2D;
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px #000;
  cursor: pointer;
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 10px;
}

.button-red:hover {
  background: red;
}

.button-green:hover {
  background:green;  
}

<div class="button button-red">I'm a red button hover over me</div>

<br />

<div class="button button-green">I'm a green button hover over me</div>

<br />

<div class="button button-red disabled">I'm a disabled red button</div>

<br />

<div class="button button-green disabled">I'm a disabled green button</div>

Use the :not pseudo-class to exclude the classes you don't want the hover to apply to:

FIDDLE

<div class="test"> blah </div>
<div class="test"> blah </div>
<div class="test nohover"> blah </div>

.test:not(.nohover):hover {  
    border: 1px solid red; 
}

This does what you want in one css rule!

I also had this problem, my solution was to have an element above the element i dont want a hover effect on:

.no-hover {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  opacity: 0.65 !important;_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.no-hover::before {_x000D_
  content: '';_x000D_
  background-color: transparent;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  top: 0;_x000D_
  left: 0;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  z-index: 60;_x000D_
}

<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />_x000D_
_x000D_
<button class="btn btn-primary">hover</button>_x000D_
<span class="no-hover">_x000D_
  <button class="btn btn-primary ">no hover</button>_x000D_
</span>