get what element the mouse is over with the mousemove event on the body

Question

If you use the mousemove event on the body tag. Is it possible to get what element in the html the mouse is currently over.

$('body').mousemove(function (e) {

var details = e; // can e.something return what element the mouse cursor is over?

console.log(details);

});

Answer 1

Use e.target. For more information, you can check event.target documentation.

$('body').mousemove(function (e) {
     var details = e.target; // can e.something return what element the mouse cursor is over?
     console.log(details);
});

Here is the demo : http://jsfiddle.net/PaX7b/1/

Answer 2

You can use event.target

for getting id use

var id = event.target.id;

use can also check using this

 var $target = $(event.target);
 if ($target.is("a")) {
        }