JQuery Hover Attribute in IE

Question

Can somebody please give a work around (preferred to be cross-browser) for the following jquery code that fails under internet explorer 8:

var selected = $("#SomeDivElementId :hover");

It is just a div with a nested table in html but it throws the exception:

Object does not support this property or method

The code works fine in Chrome and Firefox.

Maybe I should have been more specific. The $("#SomeDivElementId :hover"); call is expected to return a jQuery object of the element in the div that was hovered on since afterwards I do something like like:

if (selected.length > 0) ...

Thanks.

are you sure you need a space between #SomeDivElementId and :hover? — Spudley
– Spudley, Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 14:24
In the documentation of jquery, I can't find ":hover" like a selector string. — Galled
– Galled, Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 14:27
Yes Spudley, the space is necessary as far as I know. Without it, the code doesn't work under any browser. — Shardul Upadhyay
– Shardul Upadhyay, Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 14:28

solendil · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-13 14:16:17Z

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Use the standard hover() function which takes two callback methods :

var selected = false
$("#SomeDivElementId").hover(function(){selected=true},function(){selected=false})

answered Oct 13, 2011 at 14:16

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