How can I find current element on mouseover using jQuery?

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midstack · Feb 20, 2014 · Viewed 93.6k times · Source

How can I get the class name of the current element that is on mouseover? For example enter image description here

When a mouse is over from div to a, I want to get the class name of a div element. How can I get it using jQuery?

Answer

you can give a try to this:

window.onmouseover=function(e) {
        console.log(e.target.className);
};