How do you Hover in ReactJS? - onMouseLeave not registered during fast hover over

Question

Have you tried any of these?

onMouseDown onMouseEnter onMouseLeave onMouseMove onMouseOut onMouseOver onMouseUp

SyntheticEvent

it also mentions the following:

React normalizes events so that they have consistent properties across different browsers.

The event handlers below are triggered by an event in the bubbling phase. To register an event handler for the capture phase, append Capture to the event name; for example, instead of using onClick, you would use onClickCapture to handle the click event in the capture phase.

The previous answers are pretty confusing. You don't need a react-state to solve this, nor any special external lib. It can be achieved with pure css/sass:

The style:

.hover {
  position: relative;

  &:hover &__no-hover {
    opacity: 0;
  }

  &:hover &__hover {
    opacity: 1;
  }

  &__hover {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    opacity: 0;
  }

  &__no-hover {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

The React-Component

A simple Hover Pure-Rendering-Function:

const Hover = ({ onHover, children }) => (
    <div className="hover">
        <div className="hover__no-hover">{children}</div>
        <div className="hover__hover">{onHover}</div>
    </div>
)

Usage

Then use it like this:

    <Hover onHover={<div> Show this on hover </div>}>
        <div> Show on no hover </div>
    </Hover>

you can use onMouseOver={this.onToggleOpen} and onMouseOut={this.onToggleOpen} to muse over and out on component

Note: This answer was for a previous version of this question where the question asker was trying to use JavaScript to apply css styles… which can simply be done with CSS.

A simple css-only solution.

For applying basic styles, CSS is simpler and more performant that JS solutions 99% of the time. (Though more modern CSS-in-JS solutions — eg. React Components, etc — are arguably more maintainable.)

Run this code snippet to see it in action…

.hover-button .hover-button--on,
.hover-button:hover .hover-button--off {
  display: none;
}

.hover-button:hover .hover-button--on {
  display: inline;
}

<button class='hover-button'>
  <span class='hover-button--off'>Default</span>
  <span class='hover-button--on'>Hover!</span>
</button>