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JavaScript

Posted by Chase Zimmerman
Chase Zimmerman
4,139 Points

Dropdown menus using jquery

I have a question about using jQuery to make a dropdown menu. What I would like to do is make it so that jQuery will display a div when a user hovers over the li which I have gotten to work. The part that I don't understand is this... I would like to make it so that when the user's mouse leaves the dropdown div it will animate the opacity back down to 0, but for some reason the jQuery doesn't recognize it because it has a position of absolute. Is there anyway to fix this issue?

1 Answer

Abhay Sharma
Abhay Sharma
8,287 Points
Abhay Sharma
Abhay Sharma
8,287 Points

Don't quite understand your answer. Have you tried using display none on your div and using fadeIn and fadeOut functions in JQuery .

Chase Zimmerman
Chase Zimmerman
4,139 Points

I am basically saying that when I change the CSS to a position property of "relative" then the jQuery will recognize a "mouseleave" but when the position property is in absolute it will not recognize the "mouseleave"

I hope I made it a bit more clear

Abhay Sharma
Abhay Sharma
8,287 Points

Can you provide a snippet on http://codepen.io/ that will be helpful and we can work on it together.