jQuery treat hover on two elements as one element

Question

I have an image map which I have overlaid with some markers in the form of anchors. I currently have a hover trigger on each image map area and the associated anchor - as shown in screen shot

I need to treat these two elements as one, as currently when the mouse is moved out of one into the other, it calls .hover() and the callback again. I want to call the hover callback only when the mouse is moved out of either elements.

Answer 1

$('#areaID1, #areaID2').hover(function(){
    //same mouseover event
}, function(){
    //same mouseout event
});