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Asked: 2026-05-31T18:59:27+00:00

I searched everywhere but can’t find it. So I’m asking it here. I want

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I searched everywhere but can’t find it. So I’m asking it here. I want to get the text when the mouse is on top (hover) of that text inside an html page. I tried using getClientRect, but they only give me coordinates, and not text. Does anybody know how to do this with javascript or html? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It depends on what element you’re trying to get the text for, but possibly what you want to do is use the mouseenter event.

    $(parentselector).on({
    'mouseenter': function(){
            alert($(this).html()); // .html() or .val() depending on the element
        }
    },
    targetselector
);

    EDIT:

    How to get a word under cursor using JavaScript?

    Create your HTML like this

    <html>
   <head></head>
   <body>
      <span class="word">Hello</span>
      <span class="word">I</span>
      <span class="word">am</span>
      <span class="word">new</span>
   </body>
</html>

    Then something like this in jQuery.

    $('body').on({
    'mouseenter': function(){
            var txt = $(this).html();
        }
    },
    'span.word'
);
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