How to Detect if the Mouse is Over an Element using JavaScript

Are you looking for a way to detect if the mouse is over an element using JavaScript? If so, you've come to the right place!

In this article, you will learn how to use JavaScript and HTML events such as onmouseover and onmouseout in order to determine when a user has their mouse hovering above an element.

First, let's start by creating a simple HTML page with some basic elements.

We'll add two divs with class names "container1" and "container2". Inside each div will be some text that can be used for our example code.

<div class="container1">Container 1</div> 
<div class="container2">Container 2</div>

Next, we'll attach event listeners which will check if the mouse is hovering over either box.

To do this we need to write two functions - one for when the cursor enters (onmouseover) and one for when it leaves (onmouseout).