I have a case where I must write inline CSS code, and I want to apply a hover style on an anchor.
How can I use a:hover in inline CSS inside the HTML style attribute?
E.g., you can't reliably use CSS classes in HTML emails.
Short answer: you can't.
Long answer: you shouldn't.
Give it a class name or an id and use stylesheets to apply the style.
:hover is a pseudo-selector and, for CSS, only has meaning within the style sheet. There isn't any inline-style equivalent (as it isn't defining the selection criteria).
Response to the OP's comments:
See Totally Pwn CSS with Javascript for a good script on adding CSS rules dynamically. Also see Change style sheet for some of the theory on the subject.
Also, don't forget, you can add links to external stylesheets if that's an option. For example,
<script type="text/javascript">
var link = document.createElement("link");
link.setAttribute("rel","stylesheet");
link.setAttribute("href","http://wherever.com/yourstylesheet.css");
var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
head.appendChild(link);
</script>
Caution: the above assumes there is a head section.
You can get the same effect by changing your styles with JavaScript in the onMouseOver and onMouseOut parameters, although it's extremely inefficient if you need to change more than one element:
<a href="abc.html"
onMouseOver="this.style.color='#0F0'"
onMouseOut="this.style.color='#00F'" >Text</a>
Also, I can't remember for sure if this works in this context. You may have to switch it with document.getElementById('idForLink').
You could do it at some point in the past. But now (according to the latest revision of the same standard, which is Candidate Recommendation) you can't
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You can't do exactly what you're describing, since a:hover is part of the selector, not the CSS rules. A stylesheet has two components:
selector {rules}
Inline styles only have rules; the selector is implicit to be the current element.
The selector is an expressive language that describes a set of criteria to match elements in an XML-like document.
However, you can get close, because a style set can technically go almost anywhere:
<html>
<style>
#uniqueid:hover {do:something;}
</style>
<a id="uniqueid">hello</a>
</html>
If you actually require inline code, this is possible to do. I needed it for some hover buttons, and the method is this:
.hover-item {
background-color: #FFF;
}
.hover-item:hover {
background-color: inherit;
}
<a style="background-color: red;">
<div class="hover-item">
Content
</div>
</a
In this case, the inline code: "background-color: red;" is the switch colour on hover. Use the colour you need and then this solution works. I realise this may not be the perfect solution in terms of compatibility, however this works if it is absolutely needed.
While it appears to be impossible to define a hover-rule inline, you can define the value of styles inline using a CSS variable:
:hover {
color: var(--hover-color);
}
<a style="--hover-color: green">
Library
</a>
Consider using an attribute or a class in addition to the selector (e.g., [hover-color]:hover) to allow coexistence with other low specificity hover color changing rules (from, e.g., a CSS reset or some elements using the default style).
Using JavaScript:
a) Adding inline style
document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<style>#mydiv:hover{color:red;}</style>');
b) or a bit harder method - adding "mouseover"
document.getElementById("mydiv").onmouseover= function(e){this.className += ' my-special-class'; };
document.getElementById("mydiv").onmouseleave= function(e){this.className = this.className.replace('my-special-class',''); };
Note: multi-word styles (i.e.font-size) in JavaScript are written together:
element.style.fontSize="12px"
This is the best code example:
<a
style="color:blue;text-decoration: underline;background: white;"
href="http://aashwin.com/index.php/education/library/"
onmouseover="this.style.color='#0F0'"
onmouseout="this.style.color='#00F'">
Library
</a>
Moderator Suggestion: Keep your separation of concerns.
HTML
<a
style="color:blue;text-decoration: underline;background: white;"
href="http://aashwin.com/index.php/education/library/"
class="lib-link">
Library
</a>
JS
const libLink = document.getElementsByClassName("lib-link")[0];
// The array 0 assumes there is only one of these links,
// you would have to loop or use event delegation for multiples
// but we won't go into that here
libLink.onmouseover = function () {
this.style.color='#0F0'
}
libLink.onmouseout = function () {
this.style.color='#00F'
}
Inline pseudoclass declarations aren't supported in the current iteration of CSS (though, from what I understand, it may come in a future version).
For now, your best bet is probably to just define a style block directly above the link you want to style:
<style type="text/css">
.myLinkClass:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
</style>
Foo!
As pointed out, you cannot set arbitrary inline styles for hover, but you can change the style of the hover cursor in CSS using the following in the appropriate tag:
style="cursor: pointer;"
<style>a:hover { }</style>
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Hover is a pseudo class, and thus cannot be applied with a style attribute. It is part of the selector.
You can do this. But not in inline styles. You can use onmouseover and onmouseout events:
<div style="background: #333; padding: 10px; cursor: pointer"
onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#555';" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#333';">
Hover on me!
</div>
According to your comments, you're sending a JavaScript file anyway. Do the rollover in JavaScript. jQuery's $.hover() method makes it easy, as does every other JavaScript wrapper. It's not too hard in straight JavaScript either.
There is no way to do this. Your options are to use a JavaScript or a CSS block.
Maybe there is some JavaScript library that will convert a proprietary style attribute to a style block. But then the code will not be standard-compliant.
You can write code in various type.
First I can write this
HTML
<a href="https://www.google.com/" onMouseOver="this.style.color='red'"
onMouseOut="this.style.color='blue'" class="one">Hello siraj</a>
CSS
.one {
text-decoration: none;
}
You can try another way:
HTML
Hello siraj
CSS
.one {
text-decoration: none;
}
.one:hover {
color: blue;
}
.one:active {
color: red;
}
You can also try hover in jQuery:
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
$("p").hover(function() {
$(this).css("background-color", "yellow");
}, function() {
$(this).css("background-color", "pink");
});
});
HTML
<p>Hover the mouse pointer over this paragraph.</p>
In this code you have three functions in jQuery. First you ready a function which is the basic of a function of jQuery. Then secondly, you have a hover function in this function. When you hover a pointer to the text, the color will be changed and then next when you release the pointer to the text, it will be the different color, and this is the third function.
I just figured out a different solution.
My issue: I have an <a> tag around some slides/main content viewer as well as <a> tags in the footer. I want them to go to the same place in IE, so the whole paragraph would be underlined onHover, even though they're not links: the slide as a whole is a link. IE doesn't know the difference. I also have some actual links in my footer that do need the underline and color change onHover. I thought I would have to put styles inline with the footer tags to make the color change, but advice from above suggests that this is impossible.
Solution: I gave the footer links two different classes, and my problem was solved. I was able to have the onHover color change in one class, have the slides onHover have no color change/underline, and still able to have the external HREFS in the footer and the slides at the same time!
It's not exactly inline CSS, but it is inline.
<a href="abc.html" onMouseOver="this.style.color='#0F0'"
onMouseOut="this.style.color='#00F'">Text</a>
I agree with shadow. You could use the onmouseover and onmouseout event to change the CSS via JavaScript.
And don't say people need to have JavaScript activated. It's only a style issue, so it doesn't matter if there are some visitors without JavaScript ;)
Although most of Web 2.0 works with JavaScript. See Facebook for example (lots of JavaScript) or Myspace.
So this isn't quite what the user was looking for, but I found this question searching for an answer and came up with something sort of related. I had a bunch of repeating elements that needed a new color/hover for a tab within them. I use handlebars, which is key to my solution, but other templateing languages may also work.
I defined some colors and passed them into the handlebars template for each element. At the top of the template I defined a style tag, and put in my custom class and hover color.
<style type="text/css">
.{{chart.type}}-tab-hover:hover {
background-color: {{chart.chartPrimaryHighlight}} !important;
}
</style>
Then I used the style in the template:
<span class="financial-aid-details-header-text {{chart.type}}-tab-hover">
Payouts
</span>
You may not need the !important
While the "you shouldn't" context may apply there may be cases were you still want to achieve this. My use case was to dynamic set a hover color depending on some data value to achieve that with only CSS you can benefit from specificity.
Approach CSS only
CSS
/* Set your parent color for the inherit property */
.sidebar {
color: green;
}
/* Make sure your target element "inherit" parent color on :hover and default */
.list-item a {
color: inherit
}
.list-item a:hover {
color: inherit
}
/* Create a class to allows to get hover color from inline style */
.dynamic-hover-color:not(:hover) {
color: inherit !important;
}
Then your markup will be somewhat like:
Markup
<nav class="sidebar">
<ul>
<li class="list-item">
<a
href="/foo"
class="dynamic-hover-color"
style="color: #{{category.color}};"
>
Category
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
I'm doing this example using handlebars but the idea is that you take whatever is convenient for your use case to set the inline style (even if it is writing manually the color on hover you want)
You can just use an inline stylesheet statement like this:
<style>#T1:hover{color:red}</style><span id=T1>Your Text Here</span>
You can use the pseudo-class a:hover in external style sheets only. Therefore I recommend using an external style sheet. The code is:
a:hover {color:#FF00FF;} /* Mouse-over link */
You can do id by adding a class, but never inline.
<style>.hover_pointer{cursor:pointer;}</style>
<div class="hover_pointer" style="font:bold 12pt Verdana;">Hello World</div>
It is two lines, but you can reuse the class everywhere.
My problem was that I'm building a website which uses a lot of image-icons that have to be swapped by a different image on hover (e.g. blue-ish images turn red-ish on hover).
I produced the following solution for this:
.container div {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background-size: 100px 100px;
}
.container:hover .withoutHover {
display: none;
}
.container .withHover {
display: none;
}
.container:hover .withHover {
display: block;
}
<p>Hover the image to see it switch with the other. Note that I deliberately used inline CSS because I decided it was the easiest and clearest solution for my problem that uses more of these image pairs (with different URL's).
</p>
<div class=container>
<div class=withHover style="background-image: url('https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrqRsWFJ3492s0t0NmPEcpTQYTqNnH188R606cLOHm8H2pUGlH')"></div>
<div class=withoutHover style="background-image: url('http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03523/Cat-Photo-Bombs-fa_3523609b.jpg')"></div>
</div>
I introduced a container containing the pair of images. The first is visible and the other is hidden (display:none). When hovering the container, the first becomes hidden (display:none) and the second shows up again (display:block).
Been trying to solve this all day, but just can't work it out. It's probably something really simple, but nothing seems to work.
I am using Divi scroll animations. However, on some devices they are a bit too much, so I made a button that switched them off, by disabling transform globally. However, I also want to be able to turn it back on again. I tried toggle, but it didn't work.
Because I'm not targeting a style, I can't use class toggles etc. It probably needs to be a style toggle, but on the *. So I was wonder if there is a way of doing this; or even better, how can this can be done without Jquery?
This is the site I'm trying to get it to work on.
Any solutions, are really appreciated.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#turnOffNow").click(function(){
$("*").css("transform", "none");
});
});
</script>
<div id="turnOffNow" style="color:#fff;">
Turn Off Animations
</div>
I think this will solve your problem.
Add a class to your CSS:
.notransform * {
transform: none;
}
Append this class to your html tag in your page:
$("#turnOffNow").click(function(){
$("html").toggleClass("notransform");
});
You can also try transform: none !important to force that.
for be able to turn it on, assuming you has some inline transforms which was gone, better you give them css class, which will give them transform:none !important then remove it for turn on.
example css:
body.no-transform * {transform: none !important}
js (jQuery)
function removeTransform(){$('body').addClass("no-transform")}
function backTransform(){$('body').removeClass("no-transform")}
js (Vanilla)
function removeTransform(){document.body.classList.add("no-transform")}
function backTransform(){document.body.classList.remove("no-transform")}
I want to create some custom pseudo classes using Slick like this
Slick.definePseudo('in-fold', function(){
var isInFold = false;
// code to determine if the element is visible in the viewport
return isInFold;
});
and then use those pseudo-classes in regular CSS like so
nav:in-fold {
display: static;
width: 100%;
font-size: 1.2em
}
If this is possible at all, I couldn't get it to work. Am I missing anything?
If this is not possible using Slick.js, is there another way of doing the same thing?
Slick pseudos can only be used when querying elements with Slick (and Mootools), you cannot use them in CSS. You could try to add some JS code to apply and remove regular CSS classes when the in-fold pseudo can change (scroll and resize), but be aware of performances:
var updateInFoldStyle = function() {
$$('nav.in-fold-class').removeClass('in-fold-class');
$$('nav:in-fold').addClass('in-fold-class');
};
window.addEvent('scroll', updateInFoldStyle);
window.addEvent('resize', updateInFoldStyle);
Some ideas if performance is poor:
avoid removing and re-adding class when not needed;
use the :pause pseudo event to avoid firing scroll and resize events too frequently.
I've got a text/html slideshow with Javascript however upon cycling of new text I also need the script to trigger the :hover class on the menu item corresponding to the content present in the slideshow.
For a visual example please see: http://i.stack.imgur.com/mkyMJ.png
I've uploaded the JS code to http://pastebin.com/Kp4a7VXP for viewing.
Would really appreciate your help on this guys! :)
Thanks so much!
Kind Regards,
Jake
It may not make sense to try to mimic the hover state, so it may be better to have a css class such as .active added to the element you want the hover state for, and then include the css from the hover state in that class.
I'm assuming you have a CSS like
.item{
/* normal appearance */
}
and
.item:hover{
/* appearance when mouse over */
}
but as far as I know, there's no way to trigger the pseudo class :hover via javascript. But you can use a standard class for this like (but for semantics I would name it like .currentSlide or .activeSlide)
.item:hover,
.item.hover{
/* appearance when mouse over
or selected */
}
and then you can add and remove that class using javascript for the current slide element, like:
currentSlideDiv.classList.add("hover");
EDIT:
You can use a function like this, and call highlightCurrentSlideName(currentContentItem); inside NextClick() and PreviousClick()
function highlightCurrentSlideName(slideIndex){
var slideNameList = jQuery('.contentmenu a');
jQuery(slideNameList).removeClass('current'); //unhighlight all slide names
var currentSlide = slideNameList[slideIndex]; //select a slide name by a numeric index
jQuery(currentSlide).addClass('current'); //highlight that element
}
and add a class on your CSS file, and style it whatever you want.
.contentmenu a.current{
color: lightblue;
background-color: gray;
}
PS: I'm not a jQuery programmer I always write pure javascript, just noticed you have it there already.
Currently I'm working on a website where I'd like to show some toolstips for specific DIV elements. My weapon of choice is jQuery Tools.
So when I use $(".toolTipMe").tooltip(); it works quite nice. As soon as I hover the element a new DIV appears in the DOM:
<div class="tooltip" style="display: none; position: absolute; top: 313.65px; left: 798.5px;">foo</div>
However the design is done by our very own css-monster (you should this this guy!) and he's using a a lot of z-indexes so the .tooltip-DIV is behind the other elements.
Now the question:
The following code in our .css File is not having any effect:
.tooltip{
z-index: 9001;
}
In fact the attribute is not even showing up when debugging the website. But the following will work:
$(".toolTipMe").tooltip({
onShow: function(){
$(this).css("z-index","9001");
}
});
I'm not sure how CSS Rules are applied for dynamic inserted DOM Elements but what I really detest in the current workaround is the mixture of functionality and style. Any chance to clean up this mess? :C
I am not familiar with jquery tools, but if your z-index is not working you must need a !important tag or making it position:relative or position:absolute
In jquery tools tooltip you need to specify the z-index inside the tooltip constructor like:
$(".toolTipMe").tooltip({ z-index: '9001'});
I'm not sure if it is z-index or zindex.. check it out