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
