$("li").bind("mouseover",function(){
$("this").find("ul li").bind("mouseover",function(){
window.status = $("this").children("a").attr("href");
});
});
Or
$("li").bind("mouseover",function(){
$("this").find("ul li a").bind("mouseover",function(){
window.status = $("this").attr("href");
});
});
Something like that
2007/8/27, Dan Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> That's a good thought. But would I attach that to all links inside of
> the hovered element? In that case wouldn't the code in hover still
> clobber that and prevent it from being executed?
> It won't work if I just put that code inside the hover functions
> because there is no href associated with the element being hovered.
> Just to clarify markup is like:
>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="1.html">one</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="1a.html">onea</a></li>
> <li><a href="1b.html">oneb</a></li>
> <li><a href="1c.html">onec</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="2.html">one</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="2a.html">onea</a></li>
> <li><a href="2b.html">oneb</a></li>
> <li><a href="2c.html">onec</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> ...
> </ul>
>
> So hover is attached to the outer most <li> elements and on hover the
> <ul> inside of that should appear. This works fine except that then
> the links inside don't display in the status bar because of hover. I
> actually notice links such as "1.html" and "2.html" displaying in the
> status but the sublinks "1a.html", "2a.html", etc. are the ones that
> don't display.
>
> - Dan
>
> On Aug 27, 1:55 pm, "Dragan Krstic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Solution would be:
> > window.status = $(this).attr("href"), I think.
> >
> > 2007/8/27, Dragan Krstic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > I noticed that, too. I would give a shot to window.status. It was
> handy
> > > during href="javascript:;" time.
> >
> > > 2007/8/27, Dan Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:
> >
> > > > I am wondering if anyone has noticed the issue with jQuery's hover
> > > > function that makes it less than perfect for dropdown menus.
> Normally
> > > > most browsers display the href of the link in the status bar at the
> > > > bottom of the window when a user hovers that link. Because hover
> > > > suppresses the default onmouseover and onmouseout behaviors by
> > > > returning false for them for all children of the hovered element, it
> > > > breaks the default browser feature. Recently a client of mine
> > > > complained about this and I was wondering if anyone else has had
> this
> > > > problem, found a solution or workaround or anything of that sort. My
> > > > first reaction is to say that this is just what you have to trade
> away
> > > > to get a nicer hover event, but obviously it would be great to have
> > > > both.
> > > > Thanks.
> >
> > > --
> > > Dragan Krstić krdr
> > >http://krdr.ebloggy.com/
> >
> > --
> > Dragan Krstić krdrhttp://krdr.ebloggy.com/
>
>
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