jQuery hover Issue with div

Question

I want to show/hide certain data on mouse hover over a div tag.

My html:

 <div id='container'>
                        <div id="box" style="visibility: hidden">
                            <a href="#" class="bt btleft">Highlight it</a>
                            <a href="#" class="bt btright">Reset</a>
                        </div>
                    </div>

My jquery:

 <script>
    $(document).ready( function() {
        $("#container").hover(
            function () {
                $(this).children("div").show(100);
            },
            function () {
                $(this).children("div").hide(100);
            });​
    });

</script>

But, hover doesn't do anything!! Please suggest the way around.

Answer 1

.show() and .hide() toggle the display property, not visibility . If you want to animate visibility, you could animate the opacity CSS property:

 $(document).ready(function() { $("#container").hover( function() { $(this).children('div').animate({'opacity':'1'},100); }, function() { $(this).children('div').animate({'opacity':'0'},100); }); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div id='container'> <div id="box" style="opacity: 0"> <a href="#" class="bt btleft">Highlight it</a> <a href="#" class="bt btright">Reset</a> </div> </div> 

Answer 2

Visibility will not work for you. Try this JSfiddler

show and hide will only work for display properties.

You should not have inline styles in your html.

Answer 3

Can you try this?

 $(document).ready( function() {
        $("#container").hover(
            function () {
                $(this).children("div").css('visibility', 'visible');
            },
            function () {
                $(this).children("div").css('visibility', 'hidden');
            });
    });