Okay so I can detect a mouseover using .on('mouseover')
and I can detect keypresses using
$(document).keypress(function(e) {
console.log(e.which);
}
but how do I detect which image my mouse is hovering over when I press a certain button?
the idea is to be able to delete an image by pressing d while hovering over it. any ideas ?
You can just toggle a class or data-attribute that shows you which one is currently being hovered
$('img').hover(function(){
$(this).toggleClass('active'); // if hovered then it has class active
});
$(document).keypress(function(e) {
if(e.which == 100){
$('.active').remove(); // if d is pressed then remove active image
}
});
FIDDLE
I'v added a better example with jsFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/cUCGX/ (Hover over one of the boxes and press enter.)
Give each image an on('mouseover') and set a variable based on that image.
So
var activeImage = null;
myImage.on('mouseover', function() {
activeImage = 'myImage';
});
myImage2.on('mouseover', function() {
activeImage = 'myImage2';
});
$(document).keypress(function(e) {
if (e.which == 'certainKeyPress' && activeImage) {
//do something with activeImage
console.log('The cursor was over image: ' + activeImage + ' when the key was pressed');
}
});
Maybe also add an onmouseout to each image as well to clear activeImage if you want the key press to only work WHEN being hovered.
You should use a mousemove event to permanently store the x & y position in a global variable.
Then, in the keypress handler, grab the element at the last-known mouse position with the document.elementFromPoint(x, y) method.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document.elementFromPoint
I'm going to go ahead and necro this as I was playing around with this and found I liked my quick solution more. It may not be the best, but it worked better for my needs where I needed a namespace type solution in that the handler would be removed when the dom was in a certain state (sortable):
// Create handler for binding keyup/down based on keyCode
// (ctrl in this example) with namespace to change the cursor
var setCursorBindings = function() {
$(document).on('keydown.sortable', function(event) {
if (event.keyCode === 17) {
$('body').css('cursor', 'pointer');
}
}).on('keyup.sortable', function(event) {
if (event.keyCode === 17) {
$('body').css('cursor', 'inherit');
}
});
};
// Create a handler for reverting the cursor
// and remove the keydown and keyup bindings.
var clearCursorBindings = function() {
$('body').css('cursor', 'inherit');
$(document).off('keydown.sortable').off('keyup.sortable');
};
// Use the jQuery hover in/out to set and clear the cursor handlers
$('.myElementSelector').hover(function() {
setCursorBindings();
}, function() {
clearCursorBindings();
});
Tested in Chrome v41
Use this to test whether the mouse is over the image with id img
:
$('#img').is(":hover")