Get element that the mouse is hover on without moving mouse - jQuery JavaScript

Question

I have an application that contains several transitioning elements. These same elements react to mouseenter and mouseleave events. These events are deactivated during transitions to avoid users interacting with elements in transit.

The problem comes in when one of these elements are underneath the mouse when they are made active again. Once the moving elements are no longer moving, they should again register that the mouse is hovering on top of them. But since the mouseenter took place whilst the element was deactivated, the event is not fired once the element is made active once more.

If you then move your mouse off of the element, and then on again, it works fine. This is obviously not very user friendly.

Is there a way to register that the mouse is hovering on an element without moving the mouse?

More information on the elements discussed above: The elements in question are large divs that contain a lot of content. They are actually pages in the application that I add and remove dynamically. I have a custom scroll bar that shows if the area has focus, and hides if it does not.

As the mouse moves into the page content area, the custom scroll bar shows. Once it moves out, the scroll bars hide again. All events are made inactive whilst the animation is running.

The problem is that is the mouse moves into the page area whilst a page is animating, the the scroll bars do not (and should not) show. Once the animation completes, however, the application should register that the user is hovering inside of the page area without him moving the mouse outside and back inside this space.

Answer 1

Track the position of the mouse using a mousemove event, and test the element at the last known mouse position when you re-enable the behaviour using

document.elementFromPoint(x, y)