Question

I have a simple hover animation; i seperated mouseenter and mouseleave functions to define a contidion on mouseleave. If that cocontidion is true; disable mouseleave function but i cant get this condition work, javascript ignores my condition and run mouseleave function.

Here is jsFiddle.

jQuery:

$('.bigBox').mouseenter(function() {
    $('.trigger').stop().animate({'left':'-50px'},222);
    $('.bigBox').stop().animate({'left':'-1px'},222);
});


var holdCondition = $('#hold').hasClass('selected');
//tried to disable mouseleave here but didnt work

if ( !holdCondition ) {//if #hold has not class selected
    $('.bigBox').mouseleave(function() {
        $('.trigger').stop().animate({'left':'-1px'},222);
        $('.bigBox').stop().animate({'left':'-111px'},222);
    });
}


$('.option').click(function(){
    $('.option').removeClass('selected');
    $(this).addClass('selected');
});

html:

<div class="bigBox">
   <span class="trigger">X</span>

   <span class="option selected">A</span>
   <span class="option">B</span>
   <span id="hold" class="option">Hold</span>
</div>

css:

.bigBox {
    position:fixed; top:10%; width:100px; height: 20px; 
    left:-111px;  border:1px solid #000; padding-left:5px;
}
.trigger { 
    position:fixed; top:10%; width:20px; height: 20px; 
    left:-1px; border:1px solid #000; text-align:right; padding-right:5px;
}
.option { margin:0 5px; cursor:pointer; }
.selected { color:#f00; }

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Answer 1

your holdCondition will only run once instead you have to check it every .mouseleave().
try this.

Here is jsFiddle.

   $('.bigBox').mouseleave(function() {
        var holdCondition = $('#hold').hasClass('selected');

        if ( !holdCondition ) {//if #hold has not class selected
          $('.trigger').stop().animate({'left':'-1px'},222);
          $('.bigBox').stop().animate({'left':'-111px'},222);
        }
    });