Hover over a hidden element to show it

Question

Is there any way to hover over an element that\'s already hidden. I am trying to mimic what Steam does with their arrow navigation on their home page. You\'ll notice that wh

Answer 1

You cannot hover over an invisible element or an undisplayed element. You can hover over a visible element and then use that to show a different previously hidden element. Or you can hover over a transparent element and make it opaque.

Here is an example of the opacity technique using just CSS, it would also work with jQuery's hover.

CSS:

#it {
    opacity: 0;
    width: 500px;
    height:500px;
}

#it:hover {
    opacity: 1;
}

Here is an example of showing one element when another is hovered over:

HTML:

Hover over me to display something else
Something else

jQuery:

$("#me").hover(function(){
   $("#else").show();
},function(){
   $("#else").hide();
});