better way of jquery mouseover?

Question

I am trying to create an effect where if you hover over an img, the color of text will change below it. And also, when you mouseout, the color will change back to its original color. The page is: http://vitaminjdesign.com/work.html

My code is:

    if(window.jQuery){jQuery(function(){

        (function(){ jQuery('div#one img').bind('mouseover', function(event, ui){var target = jQuery('div#one h2'); target.animate({'color':'#111111'},250,'linear')});})();

    })};

I repeated this about 15 times in a page, and it seems to be pretty buggy, and not smooth. Playt around with it for a minute. Is there a better way of going about this?

Answer 1

Try using hover, the benefit being that you can specify the mousein and mouseout events in the same function. If you need any help with specifically how to apply what you've got to the hover event, just comment and I'll see what I can do.

EDIT:

Ok, the code on your site already has this

//On mouse over those thumbnail
$('.zitem').hover(function() {

 //Set the width and height according to the zoom percentage
 width = $('.zitem').width() * zoom;
 height = $('.zitem').height() * zoom;

 //Move and zoom the image
 $(this).find('a img').stop(false,true).animate({'width':width, 'height':height, 'top':move, 'left':move}, {duration:200});

 //Display the caption
 $(this).find('div.caption').stop(false,true).fadeIn(200);
},
function() {
 //Reset the image
 $(this).find('a img').stop(false,true).animate({'width':$('.zitem').width(), 'height':$('.zitem').height(), 'top':'0', 'left':'0'}, {duration:100}); 

 //Hide the caption
 $(this).find('div.caption').stop(false,true).fadeOut(200);
});

I'm going to add two lines into this code that do what you want

//On mouse over those thumbnail
$('.zitem').hover(function() {

 //Set the width and height according to the zoom percentage
 width = $('.zitem').width() * zoom;
 height = $('.zitem').height() * zoom;

 //Move and zoom the image
 $(this).find('a img').stop(false,true).animate({'width':width, 'height':height, 'top':move, 'left':move}, {duration:200});

 //Change the header colour
 $(this).siblings('h2').animate({'color':'#111111'},250,'linear');

 //Display the caption
 $(this).find('div.caption').stop(false,true).fadeIn(200);
},
function() {
 //Reset the image
 $(this).find('a img').stop(false,true).animate({'width':$('.zitem').width(), 'height':$('.zitem').height(), 'top':'0', 'left':'0'}, {duration:100}); 

 //Change the header colour back
 $(this).siblings('h2').animate({'color':'#EE4E07'},250,'linear');

 //Hide the caption
 $(this).find('div.caption').stop(false,true).fadeOut(200);
});

That should do it