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Opened 14 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#4434 closed feature (wontfix)

access :hover css properties of an element via jquery

Reported by: pixeline Owned by: pixeline
Priority: low Milestone: 1.next
Component: selector Version: 1.7
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

imagine i style the :hover pseudo-class of an element via css:

.myitem{ background-color:green; } .myitem:hover{ background-color:red }

I thought it would be possible to retrieve the background-color property of the element's :hover class via jquery so i tried the obvious : http://jsbin.com/idudi/edit

$(function(){ var temp = $('#myitem:hover').css('background-color'); alert("color is "+temp);

});

but it didn't work. Yet this works

function getStyle (selector){ var re = new RegExp('(|,)
s*'+selector.toLowerCase()+'
s*(,|$)'); var style = ""; $.each ($.makeArray(document.styleSheets), function(){

$.each (this.cssRules
this.rules, function(){

if (re.test(this.selectorText)) style += this.style.cssText + ';'; });

}); return style;

}

var temp = getStyle('#myitem:hover'); alert("css= "+temp);

live here: http://jsbin.com/itipo

(solution inspired by http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Totally_Pwn_CSS_with_Javascript )

so end of the story: i would like to be able to retrieve the :hover properties of an element as set in the stylesheets like this:

var myColor = $('a:hover').css('background-color');

i have no idea about the cost/benefit ratio, i just think that it "feels" right to store styling in the stylesheet rather than in metadata quirks.

Change History (12)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by dmethvin

Status: newopen

The querySelectorAll implementations are supposed to support the ":hover" selector, e.g.,

http://webkit.org/blog/156/queryselector-and-queryselectorall/

If the user agent also supports some level of CSS, the implementation should support the same set of selectors in both these APIs and CSS. -- http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/#processing-selectors

However, the overhead of figuring this out in Sizzle without qSA seems horrific.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by Rick Waldron

Owner: changed from john to pixeline
Priority: majorundecided
Status: openpending

Please confirm this issue still exists

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by addyosmani

As dmethvin points out, trying to achieve without without qSA support available would probably be a nightmare.Confirming that this is still an issue: http://jsfiddle.net/addyosmani/7ZhKt/ regardless in that it isn't yet supported.

I'm also trying to figure out a valid use-case where a large number of users would actually benefit from being able to figure out CSS properties for the hover state - if it's a page you're working with, won't you already know the CSS properties you've set for that state?. I kinda want to close this ticket, but leaving open in case you're able to justify why you think it should be in core.

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by addyosmani

Milestone: 1.41.next

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by trac-o-bot

Resolution: invalid
Status: pendingclosed

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comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by dmethvin

Priority: undecidedlow
Resolution: invalid
Status: closedreopened
Version: 1.3.21.7

comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by dmethvin

#10694 is a duplicate of this ticket.

comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by timmywil

Status: reopenedopen

I think we could actually support :hover.

return elem === document.hoverElement;

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by dmethvin

From the moreSelectors plugin? We'd need to add a custom event to the body to maintain that variable, I'm not sure the selector is important enough to justify incorporating that.

http://plugins.jquery.com/files/JQuery.moreSelectors.js_0.txt

comment:10 Changed 11 years ago by timmywil

Actually I saw it in nwmatcher, but perhaps you're right.

comment:11 Changed 11 years ago by timmywil

Why did you reopen this? heh

comment:12 Changed 11 years ago by dmethvin

Resolution: wontfix
Status: openclosed

Timmywil and I talked about it and there's no decent way to support the :hover selector on browsers that don't have it natively (no or incomplete matchesSelector support). The jQuery API documentation does not list it so it is not a selector that we promise will work cross-browser.

The way I've done this in the past is to have a mouseenter/mouseleave that added/removed a class indicating whether the element is hovered. I still think that is the best approach and perfectly cross-browser.

You could also do what the moreselectors plugin does and attach a mouseover/out handler to the document, recording the current element, but I suspect you only need to know if a handful of elements are hovered and this would be very expensive.

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