Question

$(".hovertip").parent().live('hover', function() {
  ...

The above code doesn’t seem to register.

This doesn’t seem to work either:

$(".hovertip").parent().live({
  mouseenter:
    function() {
    ...

Any examples of .live, .delegate, .bind, or .on working with a jQuery selector and a .parent() selector with .hover() or mouseenter: and mouseleave:?

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Update: I’ve created a separate question to address the dynamic DOM issue this Question has raised: jQuery .on() with a .parent() and dynamic selector

Answer 1

Try:

$(".hovertip").parent().on('hover', function() {
    alert('yay');
});

Note: .on was introduced in jQuery 1.8.

Working demo http://jsfiddle.net/pRB8n/ Hover over test test – in the demo

If you really want to use .delegate try this please: http://jsfiddle.net/TURBX/2/ – http://api.jquery.com/delegate/

Delegate
Attach a handler to one or more events for all elements that match the
selector, now or in the future, based on a specific set of root
elements.

Hope rest fits the needs :)

P.S. – .live is deprecated: for further if you keen – my old post here: 🙂 What's wrong with the jQuery live method?

under category you will see: http://api.jquery.com/live/ “deprecated”