Pause on image hover instead of empty area - HTML, CSS

Question

I am having an issue with my CSS marquee, in which images move from right to left. Right now the animation pauses when I hover anywhere inside the "SPAN", empty area or the images. I want the animation to pause on hover, only when hovering on an image; the animation should run normally when hovering on empty areas inside the "SPAN".

Here's my code:

HTML:

<div class="marqueecontainer">
    <div class="marquee">
        <span>
            <img src="images/upcoming01.png" alt="" />
            <img src="images/upcoming02.png" alt="" />
        </span>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.marqueecontainer {
    overflow: auto;
}

.marquee {
    padding: 5px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

    .marquee span {
        display: inline-block;
        padding-left: 50%;
        animation: marquee 40s linear infinite;
    }

        .marquee span:hover {
            animation-play-state: paused;
        }

@keyframes marquee {
    0% {
        transform: translate(0, 0);
    }

    100% {
        transform: translate(-100%, 0);
    }
}

Answer 1

Try adding classes to each image, like this:

<img class="pauseAnimation" src="images/upcoming01.png" alt="" />
<img class="pauseAnimation" src="images/upcoming02.png" alt="" />

and then to the CSS change it to

.pauseAnimation:hover {
   -webkit-animation-play-state: paused; /* Cross Browser Compatability */
   -moz-animation-play-state: paused; /* Cross Browser Compatability */
   -o-animation-play-state: paused; /* Cross Browser Compatability */
   animation-play-state: paused;
}