Question

If I have something like this:

Is there a way to fire the mouseover events on BOTH divs?

Edit: Sorry all .. I tried to simplify the problem so it was clear to understand and I forgot to mention I have more than 100 divs like that so probably those solutions don’t work. I’m going to see if I can adapt them.

Answer 1

I put together a working example here with JSFiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/gfosco/CU5YT/

It’s similar to madeinstefanos answer, but specific to your example..

var mouseX = 0;
var mouseY = 0;
var front = 0;
var back = 0;

function log(text) {
    $("#log").append(text + '<BR>');
}

function mouseWithin(selector) {
  var pos = $(selector).position();
  var top = pos.top;
  var left = pos.left;
  var height = $(selector).height();
  var width = $(selector).width();

  if (mouseX >= left && mouseY >= top && mouseX <= left + width 
                     && mouseY <= top + height) {
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}

$(document).bind('mousemove', function(e) {
    mouseX = e.pageX;
    mouseY = e.pageY;
    if (front == 1 && !mouseWithin("#front")) {
            front = 0;
            log('Front Leave');
    }
    if (back == 1 && !mouseWithin("#back")) {
            back = 0;
            log('Back Leave');
    }    
    if (front === 0 && mouseWithin("#front")) {     
            front = 1;
            log('Front Hover');
    }
    if (back === 0 && mouseWithin("#back")) { 
            back = 1;
            log('Back Hover');
    }        

});