Re: How is the hover pseudo-class translated into the DOM?

But doesn't getComputedStyle(...) only work for pseudo-elements; not 
pseudo-classes?

Joćo Eiras wrote:
> Na , Yansky <thegooddale@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>>
>> Hi, I was wondering about the :hover pseudo-class in style rules and 
>> how that translates into the DOM. Is it translated into the browser 
>> as a Javascript-type mouseover event? Would it be possible to read 
>> the style rules set to the hover pseudo-class via onmouseover?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Yansky.
>
> mouseover/mouseout are fired if the mouse is moved either over a child 
> of the target or another node in the document tree, so you need to 
> check if the element to where the mouse is going is a descendant of 
> the previous node. Like, onmouseover, check that target is a 
> descendant of relatedTarget.
> Then, since :hover styles are applied dynamically, without any script 
> intervention, you can read the computed styles for some element in the 
> DOM, using getComputedStyle(...)
>
>
>

Received on Monday, 26 March 2007 00:02:49 UTC