Get ID of the element I hover over with jQuery?

Question

I have a bunch of elements that look like this:

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Answer 1

These solutions still returned an empty alert for me. For me, following worked when I handled the event object passed to the hover function:

$(".input-box").hover(function(eventObj) { 
    alert(eventObj.target.id);  
});

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