Question

Any advice how to console.log the element that fired an hover action?
This is only for debugging a strange behavior I’m on on iOS.

I don’t need to find the item on which action was performed, but who is performing the action.
For example on a simple mouse hover I want to console.log the mouse.

Answer 1

Using native javascript, the window.event object is populated when an event fires, and the event.srcElement will give you DOM object that fired the event.

Using jQuery, the this reference inside an event handler will also give you the DOM object that handled the event.

Neither of these will tell you that mouseover was fired by a mouse, but they will give the DOM elements involved.