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

Here is a function which helps you check if the mouse is inside an element or not. The only thing you should do is to call the function where you can have a live mouse-associated EventObject. something like this:

$("body").mousemove(function(event){
     element_mouse_is_inside($("#mycontainer", event, true, {});
});

You can see the source code here in github or at the bottom of the post:

https://github.com/mostafatalebi/ElementsLocator/blob/master/elements_locator.jquery.js

function element_mouse_is_inside  (elementToBeChecked, mouseEvent, with_margin, offset_object)
{
    if(!with_margin)
    {
        with_margin = false;
    }
    if(typeof offset_object !== 'object')
    {
        offset_object = {};
    }
    var elm_offset = elementToBeChecked.offset();
    var element_width = elementToBeChecked.width();
    element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-left").replace("px", ""));
    element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-right").replace("px", ""));
    var element_height = elementToBeChecked.height();
    element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-top").replace("px", ""));
    element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("padding-bottom").replace("px", ""));
    if( with_margin)
    {
        element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-left").replace("px", ""));
        element_width += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-right").replace("px", ""));
        element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-top").replace("px", ""));
        element_height += parseInt(elementToBeChecked.css("margin-bottom").replace("px", ""));
    }

    elm_offset.rightBorder = elm_offset.left+element_width;
    elm_offset.bottomBorder = elm_offset.top+element_height;

    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("top"))
    {
        elm_offset.top += parseInt(offset_object.top);
    }
    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("left"))
    {
        elm_offset.left += parseInt(offset_object.left);
    }
    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("bottom"))
    {
        elm_offset.bottomBorder += parseInt(offset_object.bottom);
    }
    if(offset_object.hasOwnProperty("right"))
    {
        elm_offset.rightBorder += parseInt(offset_object.right);
    }
    var mouseX = mouseEvent.pageX;
    var mouseY = mouseEvent.pageY;

    if(  (mouseX > elm_offset.left && mouseX < elm_offset.rightBorder)
        && (mouseY > elm_offset.top && mouseY < elm_offset.bottomBorder) )
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}