Question

I have a div and a div:before. I want when the mouse goes over (hover) the :before element to change its color. Is there a way to do it no matter with css or jQuery?

I tried stuff like div:before:hover but nothing happened

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Solution 1

(doesn’t resolve question) With just css:

span:before {
    color: red;
    content: "hi";
}
span:hover:before {
    color: blue;
}

html

<span>text</span>

edit: fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/bwkM6/

Solution 2

Work around for given problem without :before

http://jsfiddle.net/Z97uN/1/