I have this code, it works on mouseover but when mouse out off the a element it does not show the original text in p
$("a.brieflink").bind("mouseover", function() {
$("div#brieftext").text($(this).data("text"));
});
$("a.brieflink").bind("mouseout", function() {
$("brieftext").hide($(this).data("text"));
});
<a href="1.html" class="brieflink" data-src="article.jpg" data-text="text1">Brief 1</a>
<a href="2.html" class="brieflink" data-src="article.jpg" data-text="text2">Brief 2</a>
<a href="3.html" class="brieflink" data-src="article.jpg" data-text="text3">Brief 3</a>
<div id="brieftext"><p>Original text</p></div>
Can anyone help please?
The reason is that when you use $("div#brieftext").text($(this).data("text"))
to set the text of brieftext
,you have clear its original content,so if you want to show the original content again,you need to invoke html()
to set it manually
$("a.brieflink").bind("mouseover", function() {
$("#brieftext").text($(this).data("text"));
});
$("a.brieflink").bind("mouseout", function() {
$("#brieftext").html("<p>Original text</p>");//set the content manaully
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a href="1.html" class="brieflink" data-src="article.jpg" data-text="text1">Brief 1</a>
<a href="2.html" class="brieflink" data-src="article.jpg" data-text="text2">Brief 2</a>
<a href="3.html" class="brieflink" data-src="article.jpg" data-text="text3">Brief 3</a>
<div id="brieftext"><p>Original text</p></div>