Question

I have table which class is forum. My jquery code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('.forum').bind("mouseover", function(){
            var color  = $(this).css("background-color");

            $(this).css("background", "#380606");

            $(this).bind("mouseout", function(){
                $(this).css("background", color);
            })    
        })    
    })
</script>

It perfectly works, but is it possible to do it in more efficient way without var color = $(this).css("background-color");. Just after mouseout leave the previous background-color and remove #380606? Thank you.

Answer 1

If you don’t care about IE ≤6, you could use pure CSS …

.forum:hover { background-color: #380606; }

.forum { color: white; }
.forum:hover { background-color: #380606 !important; }
/* we use !important here to override specificity. see http://stackoverflow.com/q/5805040/ */

#blue { background-color: blue; }

<meta charset=utf-8>

<p class="forum" style="background-color:red;">Red</p>
<p class="forum" style="background:green;">Green</p>
<p class="forum" id="blue">Blue</p>

---

With jQuery, usually it is better to create a specific class for this style:

.forum_hover { background-color: #380606; }

and then apply the class on mouseover, and remove it on mouseout.

$('.forum').hover(function(){$(this).toggleClass('forum_hover');});

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.forum').hover(function(){$(this).toggleClass('forum_hover');});
});

.forum_hover { background-color: #380606 !important; }

.forum { color: white; }
#blue { background-color: blue; }

<meta charset=utf-8>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<p class="forum" style="background-color:red;">Red</p>
<p class="forum" style="background:green;">Green</p>
<p class="forum" id="blue">Blue</p>

---

If you must not modify the class, you could save the original background color in .data():

  $('.forum').data('bgcolor', '#380606').hover(function(){
    var $this = $(this);
    var newBgc = $this.data('bgcolor');
    $this.data('bgcolor', $this.css('background-color')).css('background-color', newBgc);
  });

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.forum').data('bgcolor', '#380606').hover(function(){
    var $this = $(this);
    var newBgc = $this.data('bgcolor');
    $this.data('bgcolor', $this.css('background-color')).css('background-color', newBgc);
  });
});

.forum { color: white; }
#blue { background-color: blue; }

<meta charset=utf-8>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<p class="forum" style="background-color:red;">Red</p>
<p class="forum" style="background:green;">Green</p>
<p class="forum" id="blue">Blue</p>

or

  $('.forum').hover(
    function(){
      var $this = $(this);
      $this.data('bgcolor', $this.css('background-color')).css('background-color', '#380606');
    },
    function(){
      var $this = $(this);
      $this.css('background-color', $this.data('bgcolor'));
    }
  );   

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.forum').hover(
    function(){
      var $this = $(this);
      $this.data('bgcolor', $this.css('background-color')).css('background-color', '#380606');
    },
    function(){
      var $this = $(this);
      $this.css('background-color', $this.data('bgcolor'));
    }
  );    
});

.forum { color: white; }
#blue { background-color: blue; }

<meta charset=utf-8>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<p class="forum" style="background-color:red;">Red</p>
<p class="forum" style="background:green;">Green</p>
<p class="forum" id="blue">Blue</p>