Inline CSS styles in React: how to implement a:hover?

Question

I quite like the inline CSS pattern in React and decided to use it.

However, you can\'t use the :hover and similar selectors. So what\'s the best way to

Answer 1

Adding on to Jonathan's answer, here are the events to cover the focus and active states, and a using onMouseOver instead of onMouseEnter since the latter will not bubble if you have any child elements within the target the event is being applied to.

var Link = React.createClass({

  getInitialState: function(){
    return {hover: false, active: false, focus: false}
  },

  toggleHover: function(){
    this.setState({hover: !this.state.hover})
  },

  toggleActive: function(){
    this.setState({active: !this.state.active})
  },

  toggleFocus: function(){
    this.setState({focus: !this.state.focus})
  },

  render: function() {
    var linkStyle;
    if (this.state.hover) {
      linkStyle = {backgroundColor: 'red'}
    } else if (this.state.active) {
      linkStyle = {backgroundColor: 'blue'}
    } else if (this.state.focus) {
      linkStyle = {backgroundColor: 'purple'}
    } 

    return(
      

         
          Link 
        
      
    )
  }