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Interaction Helpers: toggle( ) and hover( )
Posted on: April 18, 2011 at 12:00 AM

Interaction Helpers: toggle( ) and hover( )

Interaction Helpers: toggle( ) and hover( )

.toggle( )

This method binds two or more handlers to the matched elements, which will be executed on alternate clicks.

Example :

jqTogglePara.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <script src="jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
	<button>Toggle</button>
<p>Bye</p>
<p style="display: none">Good Night</p>
<script>

$("button").click(function () {
$("p").toggle();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output :

When page opens :

When we click on button :

Description of the program :

You can see that there are two paragraph . We set toggle to 'p', it means when we click on button the paragraph changes alternately :

$('p').toggle();

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.hover( )

This method binds two handlers to the matched elements, to be executed when the mouse pointer enters and leaves the elements.

Example :

n this example, a table is given, when we hover mouse on it , it will highlight the cell by changing background of the cell.

hoverMouseEvent.html

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<style type="text/css">
.style1 {
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
}
.style2 {
color: #0000FF;
}
td.hover { background:#B0E0E6; }

.style3 {
color: #FF0000;
}

</style>
<script src="jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h3><font color="purple">
Hover Mouse on cell to see effect
</font></h3>
<table style="width: 23%" class="style1" border="1">
<tr>
<td style="width: 157px" class="style3"><strong>
COUNTRY
</strong></td>
<td style="width: 217px" class="style3"><strong>
CAPITAL
</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 157px" class="style2">
INDIA</td>
<td style="width: 217px" class="style2">
NEW DELHI</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 157px" class="style2">
PAKISTAN</td>
<td style="width: 217px" class="style2">
ISLAMABAD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 157px" class="style2">
U.S.A.</td>
<td style="width: 217px" class="style2">

</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 157px" class="style2">
JAPAN</td>
<td style="width: 217px" class="style2">
TOKYO</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
$("td").hover(
function () {
$(this).addClass("hover");
},
function () {
$(this).removeClass("hover");
}
);
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output :

When you hover mouse on any of the cell, it get highlighted :

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