Read :hover Pseudo Class With Javascript

January 19, 2024 Post a Comment

I made a function that overwrite the the :hover of some elements on a page. It fades between the normal and the :hover effect. That for i had to create a .hover class in my CSS fil

Solution 1:

Using getComputedStyle as on the accepted answer won't work, because:

The computed style for the hover state is only available when the element is actually on that state.
The second parameter to getComputedStyle should be empty or a pseudo-element. It doesn't work with :hover because it's a pseudo-class.

Here is an alternative solution:

functiongetCssPropertyForRule(rule, prop) {
    var sheets = document.styleSheets;
    var slen = sheets.length;
    for(var i=0; i<slen; i++) {
        var rules = document.styleSheets[i].cssRules;
        var rlen = rules.length;
        for(var j=0; j<rlen; j++) {
            if(rules[j].selectorText == rule) {
                return rules[j].style[prop];
            }
        }
    }
}

// Get the "color" value defined on a "div:hover" rule,// and output it to the consoleconsole.log(getCssPropertyForRule('div:hover', 'color'));

Demo

Solution 2:

You could access document.styleSheets and look for a rule that is applied on that specific element. But that’s not any cleaner than using a simple additional class.

Solution 3:

UPDATE: I somehow got this wrong. The below example doesn't work. See @bfavaretto's comment for an explanation.

~~In Firefox, Opera and Chrome or any other browser that correctly implements window.getComputedStyle is very simple. You just have to pass "hover" as the second argument:~~

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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><metacharset="UTF-8"><styletype="text/css">div {
  display: block;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  background: red;
}
div:hover {
  background: green;
}
</style></head><body><div></div><scripttype="text/javascript">window.onload = function () {
    var div = document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0];
    var style = window.getComputedStyle(div, "hover");
    alert(style.backgroundColor);
};
</script></body></html>

~~But I don't believe there's yet a solution for Internet Explorer, except for using document.styleSheets as Gumbo suggested. But there will be differences.~~ So, having a .hover class is the best solution so far. Not unclean at all.

Solution 4:

If there are any people here who use the questions accepted answer but it won't work, here's a nice function that might:

function getPseudoStyle(id, style) {
    var all = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
    for (var i=0, max=all.length; i < max; i++) {
        var targetrule = "";
        if (all[i].id === id) {
            if(all[i].selectorText.toLowerCase()== id + ":" + style) { //example. find "a:hover" rule
                targetrule=myrules[i]
            }
        }
        return targetrule;
    }
}

Solution 5:

There is an alterantive way to get :hover pseudo class with javascript. You can write your styles of hover pseudo class in a content property.

p::before,
p::after{
  content: 'background-color: blue; color:blue; font-size: 14px;';
}

then read from it via getComputedStyle() method:

console.log(getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('p'),':before').getPropertyValue('content'));

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