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JavaScript

Joseph Bertino
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Joseph Bertino
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points
Posted by Joseph Bertino
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Joseph Bertino
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points

ONLY toggle <span> when hover over <p> parent?

For part (1) of this challenge we are asked to toggle the appearance of the helper text in the <span> element when we hover over the element <p id='helpText'>.

However I noticed that I can hover over the area where the span is located, even when the span is hidden(!), and it will toggle the intended behavior.

The instructor claims that this is the correct behavior, but I would like to know how to design the jQuery code so that the <span> is toggled ONLY when the mouse makes contact with the helper text. In coder terms, I don't want the 'mouseover' event to propagate---or bubble down---to the children of the <p> element. I've tried the following to no avail:

$('p#helpText').on('mouseenter', function(event) {
  $('#helpText span').toggle();
  event.stopPropagation();
});

Any ideas?