Question

I’m making a drag and drop action, and I want an element to shift down when I bring an element over the one that is in my way.

Answer 1

a simple hack would be to say something like:

var hoverElem = null;
$('*').hover(function() {hoverElem = this});

then when you need to call what ever function to get the value, just use hoverElem

EDIT: this is a less resource intensive call:

$('*').live('mouseenter', function() { hoverEleme = this; });

EDIT 2: due to .live() being deprecated, you should use .on()

$("*").on("mouseenter", function() { hoverElem = this; });