[css] CSS disable hover effect

I need to disable the mouse hover on a particular button(not on all buttons) in the entire DOM. Please let me know how to achieve it using a CSS class.

i am using the below CSS class when my button is disabled. now i want to remove the hover effect using the same class.

.buttonDisabled
 {
 Cursor:text !important; Text-Decoration: None !important; 
 } 

The above class will take care of removing the hand sign and text underline on mouse over . Now i want to remove hover effect also. Please let me know.

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From your question all I can understand is that you already have some hover effect on your button which you want remove. For that either remove that css which causes the hover effect or override it.

For overriding, do this

.buttonDisabled:hover
{
    //overriding css goes here
}

For example if your button's background color changes on hover from red to blue. In the overriding css you will make it as red so that it doesnt change.

Also go through all the rules of writing and overriding css. Get familiar with what css will have what priority.

Best of luck.


You can achieve this using :not selector:

HTML code:

<a class="button">Click me</a>
<a class="button disable">Click me</a>

CSS code (using scss):

.button {
  background-color: red;
  &:not(.disable):hover {
    /* apply hover effect here */
  }   
}

In this way you apply the hover effect style when a specified class (.disable) is not applied.


Add the following to add hover effect on disabled button:

.buttonDisabled:hover
  {
    /*your code goes here*/     
  }

To disable the hover effect, I've got two suggestions:

  • if your hover effect is triggered by JavaScript, just use $.unbind('hover');
  • if your hover style is triggered by class, then just use $.removeClass('hoverCssClass');

Using CSS !important to override CSS will make your CSS very unclean thus that method is not recommended. You can always duplicate a CSS style with different class name to keep the same styling.


Here is way to to unset the hover effect.

.table-hover > tbody > tr.hidden-table:hover > td {
    background-color: unset !important;
    color: unset !important;
}

  .buttonDisabled{
     background-color: unset !important;
    color: unset !important;
}

I tried the following and it works for me better

Code:

.unstyled-link{ 
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: inherit;
  &:link,
  &:hover {
    color: inherit;
    text-decoration: inherit;
  }
}

Do this Html and the CSS is in the head tag. Just make a new class and in the css use this code snippet:

pointer-events:none;

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Document</title>
    <style>
      .buttonDisabled {
        pointer-events: none;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <button class="buttonDisabled">Not-a-button</button>
  </body>
</html>

I have really simple solution for this.

just create a new class

.noHover{
    pointer-events: none;
}

and use this to disable any event on it. use it like:

<a href='' class='btn noHover'>You cant touch ME :P</a>