Nicely done Karl, I knew there was a better way.
On Sep 17, 1:54 pm, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one worked for me...
>
> $('body').bind('mouseover', function(event) {
> $(event.target).addClass('selected');}).bind('mouseout', function(event) {
>
> $(event.target).removeClass('selected');
>
> });
>
> You'll run into problems if you have properties assigned to more
> specific selectors in your stylesheet, but otherwise, it should work
> fine.
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:50 AM, benjam wrote:
>
>
>
> > This is insanely kludgy, not very pretty, and probably slower than a
> > more elegant solution.
>
> > But it works.
>
> > $('*').hover(
> > function(event) {
> > var $this = $(this);
> > $this.addClass('selected');
> > $this.parents( ).removeClass('selected');
> > },
> > function(event) {
> > var $this = $(this);
> > $this.removeClass('selected');
> > $this.parents( ).removeClass('selected');
> > $this.parent( ).addClass('selected');
> > $this.children( ).removeClass('selected');
> > }
> > );
>
> > I'm sure there are better solutions out there, but this was the
> > fastest and easiest method.
>
> > On Sep 17, 2:04 am, Balazs Endresz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure I get it, but if you want to grab the <strong> inside a
> >> <p> when the event is only bound to <p> then you can get it simply by
> >> event.target:
>
> >> $('body').find('*').filter(function(){
> >> return !$(this).children().length;})
>
> >> .add('p').not('p *')
> >> .hover(function(event){
>
> >> var t=event.target //this will be the strong tag inside the <p>
>
> >> if ($(this).children().length() > 0) {
> >> return False
> >> }
>
> >> $(this).addClass('selected');
> >> },
> >> function(){
> >> $(this).removeClass('selected');
> >> }
> >> );
>
> >> You can also try this with event delegation, which will be much
> >> faster
> >> with a lot of
> >> elements:http://dev.distilldesign.com/log/2008/jan/27/event-delegation-jquery/...
>
> >> On Sep 16, 7:17 pm, John Boxall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi Balazs,
>
> >>> Thanks for the reply - looking at your suggestion, my idea was to
> >>> apply it to the code like this:
>
> >>> $(function() {
> >>> $("*").hover(
> >>> function(){
>
> >>> // If the element has more than one child stop
> >>> propagating.
> >>> if ($(this).children().length() > 0) {
> >>> return False
> >>> }
>
> >>> $(this).addClass('selected');
> >>> },
> >>> function(){
> >>> $(this).removeClass('selected');
> >>> }
> >>> );
>
> >>> }
>
> >>> This is _close_ to what I want, but what I'd really like is to grab
> >>> DOM element you are hovering over with the minimum number of
> >>> children
> >>> - not necessarily zero.
>
> >>> It's my understanding that with the above, if you hovered over a <p>
> >>> with a <strong> inside you couldn't select the <p> because it would
> >>> have a child!
>
> >>> Thanks,
>
> >>> John
>
> >>> Should only return true if the selected $(this) has no children.
> >>> This is _close_ to what I want - but what I'd really like is to grab
> >>> the element
>
> >>> On Sep 14, 4:10 am, Balazs Endresz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>> Hey John,
>
> >>>> I think this will do that:
>
> >>>> $('body').find('*').filter(function(){
> >>>> return !$(this).children().length;})
>
> >>>> .add('p').not('p *') //without this, if a paragraph contains tags
> >>>> thehoverwon't be applied to the most of the text
>
> >>>> On Sep 12, 9:29 pm, John Boxall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> Heyo jQuery hackers,
>
> >>>>> I'm putting together a little script that adds a class
> >>>>> "selected" to
> >>>>> an element when youhoverover it.
> >>>>> When you stop hovering the class "selected" class is removed.
>
> >>>>> I would like the class only to be apply to the lowest element in
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> DOM.
>
> >>>>> For example say I was hovering over a <p> deep inside a document
> >>>>> - I
> >>>>> would like to only add the class "selected" to that <p> tag, not
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> <div>, <body> and <html> tags surrounding it.
>
> >>>>> So far my thinking has been to use something like this:
>
> >>>>> $(function() {
> >>>>> $("*").hover(
> >>>>> function(){
> >>>>> $(this).addClass('selected');
> >>>>> },
> >>>>> function(){
> >>>>> $(this).removeClass('selected');
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> );
>
> >>>>> }
>
> >>>>> Which adds the "selected" class to any element Ihoverover fine. It
> >>>>> also removes it.
>
> >>>>> The problem is thehoveris firing all the way up the chain and
> >>>>> hitting all elements from the lowest to the highest so I've got
> >>>>> a ton
> >>>>> of ugly selected elements when I really just wanted the lowest
> >>>>> one...
>
> >>>>> Is there any way I can restrict it?
>
> >>>>> Thanks,
>
> >>>>> John
