How to highlight links in the div on mouseover

Question

I have div with a few links spread out in the content. I would like to highlight all the links in the div onmouseover. Is there jquery solution that works in FF, IE and chrome.

Thanks.

Answer 1

How about no JavaScript?

Style.CSS

.linkdiv a {
   color: blue;
}

.linkdiv:hover a {
   color: red;
}

I wanted to test this, but sadly jsfiddle isn't iPhone compatible :(

Answer 2

Demo

HTML:

<div id='links'>
    This is simple text<br />
    <a href='#'>Link1<a/><br />
    <a href='#'>Link2<a/><br />
    <a href='#'>Link3<a/><br />
</div>

jQuery:

$('#links').live('mouseover', function(){
    $('#links > a').addClass('highlight');
});

$('#links').live('mouseout', function(){
    $('#links > a').removeClass('highlight');
});

CSS:

.highlight {
 background-color : red;   
}​

You can edit CSS part to highlight in your favorite style.

Answer 3

The Best Solution, As far as my concern =)

Markup :

<h1>CSS is cool! </h1>
<ul id="css">
    <li><a class="links" href="#"> Link1 </a></li>  
    <li><a class="links" href="#"> Link2 </a></li>  
    <li><a class="links" href="#"> Link3 </a></li>  
    <li><a class="links" href="#"> Link4 </a></li>
</ul>

CSS :

 #css li { margin:0px 5px;list-style:none; float:left;}
 #css .links { color :#0099f9; text-decoration:none;font:bold 20px Arial;}
 #css:hover a.links { color : #f0f;}

Answer 4

something like this (in your document ready) should do it!

$('#MyDiv').live('mouseenter', function(){
    $(this).find('a').addClass('highlight');
});
$('#MyDiv').live('mouseleave', function(){
    $(this).find('a').removeClass('highlight');
});

Answer 5

Give all the links the same class and then do this:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.someClass').hover(function() {
    $('.someClass').css('underline' : 'solid 1px #FFF');
  });
})

Answer 6

If I remember correctly, you should be able to just do:

$('div selector').hover(function(e) {
    $(this).find('a').doThings();
},
function(e) {
    $(this).find('a').undoThings();
});

I'd also suggest switching the explicit $.hover() call (just provided as an example) to use $.delegate() or $.live() .