jquery toggle hover items with hide delay

Question

I put this code together from a snippet from somewhere else, so I may not be doing this very well. I have multiple div's that looks like this:

<div class="services">
<p>...</p>
<ol class="serviceList" style="display: none;">
  <li>
    <p>service</p>
    <ul>
      <li>service description</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
...
</ol>
</div>

I want the <ol> to slideDown when the services div is hovered over. It needs a delay so that it doesn't vanish if the user mistakenly mouseout. BUT if they mouse over another services div then the visible one needs to go away immediately to make room for the new serviceList Here is what I have now:

$('.services').each(function () {
            var time = 800;
      var hideDelay = 1000;

            var hideDelayTimer = null;

            var beingShown = false;
            var shown = false;
      var trigger = $(this);
      var info = $('.serviceList', this);

      $([trigger.get(0),info.get(0)]).mouseover(function () {


                if (hideDelayTimer) clearTimeout(hideDelayTimer);
                if (beingShown || shown) {
                    // don't trigger the animation again

                    return;
                } else {



      info.addClass('active');

                    // reset position of info box
                    beingShown = true;

                    info.css('zindex','2')
        .slideDown(time, function() {
                        beingShown = false;
                        shown = true;
                    });
                }

                return false;
            }).mouseout(function () {

                if (hideDelayTimer) clearTimeout(hideDelayTimer);
                hideDelayTimer = setTimeout(function () {
                    hideDelayTimer = null;

                    info.css('zindex','0')
        .fadeOut( hideDelay, function () {
                        shown = false;
                        info.removeClass('active');
                    });


                }, hideDelay);

                return false;
            });


     });

I have a poor understanding of scope so I don't know what the get(0) stuff is about. I've been trying to have an event on mouseover that checks if any other "serviceList" is .active and then hide it. That works, unless you switch between "services" too fast. Am even close to doing this right?

Thanks

Answer 1

You should try using the hoverIntent plugin. This is what it is designed for.

$('.services').hoverIntent(
     function() { // over
        $(this).find('.serviceList:first').slideDown();
     },
     function() { // out
        $(this).find('.serviceList:first').slideUp();
     }
);

Note that this is basically the same as the hover() method, but it includes the delay that you are looking for.