How do you Hover in ReactJS? - onMouseLeave not registered during fast hover over

Question

How can you achieve either a hover event or active event in ReactJS when you do inline styling?

I\'ve found that the onMouseEnter, onMouseLeave approach is buggy, so

Answer 1

Note: This answer was for a previous version of this question where the question asker was trying to use JavaScript to apply css styles… which can simply be done with CSS.

A simple css-only solution.

For applying basic styles, CSS is simpler and more performant that JS solutions 99% of the time. (Though more modern CSS-in-JS solutions — eg. React Components, etc — are arguably more maintainable.)

Run this code snippet to see it in action…

.hover-button .hover-button--on,
.hover-button:hover .hover-button--off {
  display: none;
}

.hover-button:hover .hover-button--on {
  display: inline;
}

  Default
  Hover!