Simulate hover using JavaScript events

Question

Is it possible to simulate hover using JavaScript Events? I tried injecting mouseover event on the target element but no luck.

For example, if there is a link that

Answer 1

Yes, you would simply add onMouseOver and onMouseOut events to the element in question

Like this:

Then make your javascript change the element's class (if you want two different CSS classes) or simply modify the element's style directly. You could do something like this.

Please note that you can also use a library like jQuery to handle this even more simply.