Well, your referencing an id of #orderedlist, which i do see assigned in your html. $("#orderedlist li"). I also don't see any purpose of handling that type of simple functionality with jquery. Just use css to handle the hover and save your self from having 5 lines of unnessary code. I believe one of the most important aspects of development, is of knowing when, where, and how to handle and separate certain aspects of design and functionality. http://2whoa.com/dominate/
--- On Sun, 9/14/08, michbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: michbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [jQuery] get colored list-items while hovering? To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com> Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 10:16 AM hello folks, sorry, i'm very new to jquery and i'm trying to run a pretty simple test, but it doesn't work :-/ could anybody give me a hint what's wrong? i want my li-itmes get colored grren while hovering, the alert-window after clicking a link works fine. thanx in advance! ---- <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { // get a-Tags from DOM and do click-event $("a").click(function() { alert("thx!"); }); // get li-Tags from DOM and define class $("#orderedlist li").hover(function() { $(this).addClass("green"); },function(){ $(this).removeClass("green"); }); }); </script> <style type="text/css"> .green { background-color:green; color:blue;} </style> </head> <body> <a href="http://jquery.com/">Link 1</a><br /> <a href="http://www.test.com/">Link 2</a> <hr> <ol> <li>Point 1</li> <li>Point 2</li> <li>Point 3</li> </ol> <hr> <ol> <li>Point 1</li> <li>Point 2</li> <li>Point 3</li> </ol> </body> </html>