How can I find current element on mouseover using jQuery?

Question

How can I get the class name of the current element that is on mouseover? For example <

Answer 1

What most people have neglected is this request from the OP:

When mouse over div from a

Meaning you need to know you've hovered from a specific type of element, not just from any element.

I made a global var, changing to true on the mouseleave of specific elements, in your case an a element. Then, inside the hover function you need to check that it's true.

Here's a Demo

Edit: Updated fiddle demo with edge cases when hovering from a element not directly onto the div.