Well, it works. I am not sure why my first implementation wasn't working. Thank you for your help!
Kind regards, Dale Larsen On Aug 25, 6:04 am, Satyakaran <satyaka...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you need to change your approach. > :hover is not set-able by jquery ..... > > I tried this > > <script> > > function hover1() { > > var h = $(':hover', '.test'); > > $.each( > h, > function( intIndex, intVal ){ > alert($(this).css('color')) > } > ) > > } > > </script> > > <div class="test"> > <a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'onclick="alert($('.test > a:hover').css('color'));return false;">W3Schools1</a> > <a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'onclick="alert($('a:hover').css > ('color'));return false;">W3Schools2</a> > > <a href='http://www.w3schools.com/'onclick="javascript:hover1 > ();return false;">W3Schools3</a> > </div> > > Here on link 1 and 2 , I am getting the right output but not through > a function I have tried in 3 link. > > On Aug 25, 4:57 am, Dale Larsen <dalelarse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I need to get the css hover color of an element. Since hover is a > > pseudo class of a class or id, I do not see a way of returning the > > color. > > > I tried: > > > $('.contentArea a:hover').css('color'); > > > but it does not return the hover color. > > > I understand that jQuery probably traverses the inline styles and > > there is no way to set the hover pseudo class inline, hence the > > reason for the .hover function. > > > Is it possible to find and return the hover color with jQuery. If so > > how?