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    copied!<p>I bind the hover event to the <code>li</code> tag(see my code below or fiddle, for code details), i.e. when i hover over the <code>li</code>, i added the class which changes the background of the <code>li</code>.</p> <p><code>li</code> tag is having one <code>a</code> tag which encloses two <code>span</code> tags with texts, when i hover over the two text <code>span</code> tags, i am not seeing the hover event is executed. Please see my fiddle <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/shmdhussain/JbVMv/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/shmdhussain/JbVMv/</a> . Thanks in advance for any help.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" &gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Untitled Page&lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/reset.css"&gt;&lt;/link&gt; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/mystyle.css"&gt;&lt;/link&gt; &lt;script src="/jquery-my.js" &gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script&gt; jQuery(function($){ var groupTab = $("ul").children("li"); groupTab.hover(function(){ if(!($(this).children("a").hasClass("current"))) { $(this).siblings("li").children("a").removeClass("hoverBG"); $(this).children("a").addClass("hoverBG"); } }); groupTab.mouseout(function(){ $(this).children("a").removeClass("hoverBG"); }); }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;style&gt; li{background-color:#DCDEDB; border:1px solid black; padding:20px; } .hoverBG{ background-color:red; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div class=""&gt; &lt;ul class="" id=""&gt; &lt;li class=" "&gt; &lt;a class="current" href="#" &gt; &lt;span class=""&gt; MyName &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;span class=""&gt;MyData&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="" &gt; &lt;a class="" href="#" &gt; &lt;span class=""&gt; MyName &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;span class=""&gt;MyData&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="" &gt; &lt;a class="" href="#"&gt; &lt;span class=""&gt; MyName &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;span class=""&gt;MyData&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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