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

Just a note about the popular and helpful Arthur Goldsmith answer above: If you're moving your mouse from one element to another in IE (at least until IE 9) you may have some trouble getting this to work correctly if the new element has a transparent background (which it would by default). My workaround was the give the new element a transparent background image.