How to show hidden divs on mouseover?

javascript jquery html css mouseover

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Solution 1

If the divs are hidden, they will never trigger the mouseover event.

You will have to listen to the event of some other unhidden element.

You can consider wrapping your hidden divs into container divs that remain visible, and then act on the mouseover event of these containers.

<div style="width: 80px; height: 20px; background-color: red;" 
        onmouseover="document.getElementById('div1').style.display = 'block';">
   <div id="div1" style="display: none;">Text</div>
</div>

You could also listen for the mouseout event if you want the div to disappear when the mouse leaves the container div:

onmouseout="document.getElementById('div1').style.display = 'none';"

Solution 2

You could wrap the hidden div in another div that will toggle the visibility with onMouseOver and onMouseOut event handlers in JavaScript:

<style type="text/css">
  #div1, #div2, #div3 {  
    visibility: hidden;  
  }
</style>
<script>
  function show(id) {
    document.getElementById(id).style.visibility = "visible";
  }
  function hide(id) {
    document.getElementById(id).style.visibility = "hidden";
  }
</script>

<div onMouseOver="show('div1')" onMouseOut="hide('div1')">
  <div id="div1">Div 1 Content</div>
</div>
<div onMouseOver="show('div2')" onMouseOut="hide('div2')">
  <div id="div2">Div 2 Content</div>
</div>
<div onMouseOver="show('div3')" onMouseOut="hide('div3')">
  <div id="div3">Div 3 Content</div>
</div>

Solution 3

Pass the mouse over the container and go hovering on the divs I use this for jQuery DropDown menus mainly:

Copy the whole document and create a .html file you'll be able to figure out on your own from that!

            <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
            <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
            <head>
            <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
            <title>The Divs Case</title>
            <style type="text/css">
            * {margin:0px auto;
            padding:0px;}

            .container {width:800px;
            height:600px;
            background:#FFC;
            border:solid #F3F3F3 1px;}

            .div01 {float:right;
            background:#000;
            height:200px;
            width:200px;
            display:none;}

            .div02 {float:right;
            background:#FF0;
            height:150px;
            width:150px;
            display:none;}

            .div03 {float:right;
            background:#FFF;
            height:100px;
            width:100px;
            display:none;}

            div.container:hover div.div01 {display:block;}
            div.container div.div01:hover div.div02  {display:block;}
            div.container div.div01 div.div02:hover div.div03 {display:block;}

            </style>
            </head>
            <body>

            <div class="container">
              <div class="div01">
                <div class="div02">
                    <div class="div03">
                    </div>
                </div>
              </div>

            </div>
            </body>
            </html>

Solution 4

Option 1 Each div is specifically identified, so any other div (without the specific IDs) on the page will not obey the :hover pseudo-class.

<style type="text/css">
  #div1, #div2, #div3{  
    display:none;  
  }  
  #div1:hover, #div2:hover, #div3:hover{  
    display:block;  
  }
</style>

Option 2 All divs on the page, regardless of IDs, have the hover effect.

<style type="text/css">
  div{  
    display:none;  
  }  
  div:hover{  
    display:block;  
  }
</style>

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Jack P.

Updated on October 23, 2020

Comments

Jack P. over 3 years
How to show a set of hidden div's onmouseover?

For example :
```
<div id="div1">Div 1 Content</div>
<div id="div2">Div 2 Content</div>
<div id="div3">Div 3 Content</div>
```
All div's need to be shown onmouseover event.