jQuery mouse Out call CSS3 Animation

Question

I Currently have a CSS3 animation for Mouse Hover Event, see it below:

#topo .menu-header ul li:hover a {
    -webkit-animation: menuanimate 0.3s linear 0s both;
    -moz-animation: menuanimate 0.3s linear 0s both;
    -o-animation: menuanimate 0.3s linear 0s both;
    -ms-animation: menuanimate 0.3s linear 0s both;
    animation: menuanimate 0.3s linear 0s both;
}
@-webkit-keyframes menuanimate{
    50% {
        transform: rotateY(90deg);
        -webkit-transform: rotateY(90deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
        -moz-transform: rotateY(90deg); /* Firefox */
        color: #353535; 
        background: url(images/bullets.png) no-repeat;
        background-position: 3px 18px;
    }
    51% {
        transform: rotateY(270deg);
        -webkit-transform: rotateY(270deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
        -moz-transform: rotateY(270deg); /* Firefox */
        color: #fff;
        background: #f15a25;
    }
    100% { 
        color: #fff; background: #f15a25;
        transform: rotateY(360deg);
        -webkit-transform: rotateY(360deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
        -moz-transform: rotateY(360deg); /* Firefox */
    }
}

The Problem is: When the user move the mouse away from the button, there is no Animation for that. in CSS there is no mouse out event, so, is there a way to call an animation of Mouse Out like that in jQuery?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

Can't you just call it with jQuery like:

$('element').hover(function(e)
{
     $(this).css({"rollover animation css in here..."});
},function(e)
{
     $(this).css({"rolloff animation css in here..."});
});

or even just have 2 classes ".over" and ".out" and then use $(this).addClass("over") & same for out on rolloff?