Question

I just saw a demo that had this jquery code to show and hide a dive on hover, can’t this be done with just regualr css though? And if you can do it with css is there any advantage of doing it with javascript?

$('.comment').hover(function() {
  $(this).children('.delete').show();
}, function() {
  $(this).children('.delete').hide();
});

Answer 1

CSS hover works fine with anchor tags, but IE6 does not recognize hover events on things like li tags.

If you were using an anchor tag, however, you could achieve the same effect in CSS:

a.comment       .delete { display: none; }
a.comment:hover .delete { display: block; }