How do I check if the mouse is over an element in jQuery?

Question

Is there a quick & easy way to do this in jQuery that I\'m missing?

I don\'t want to use the mouseover event because I\'m already using it for something else. I

Answer 1

I have answered this in another question, with all details you may need:

Detect IF hovering over element with jQuery (has 99 upvotes at the time of writing)

Basically, you can do something like:

var ishovered = oi.is(":hover");

This works only if oi is a jQuery object containing a single element. If there are multiple elements matched, you need to apply to each element, for example:

var hoveredItem = !!$('ol>li').filter(function() { return $(this).is(":hover"); });
                  // not .filter(':hover'), as we can't apply :hover on multiple elements

This was tested starting jQuery 1.7.