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How to show the child div on mouse hover of parent div

Asked 2013-05-10T09:56:47.930
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I have a number of parent divs (.parent_div), which each contain a child div (.hotqcontent) where I output data from my database using a loop.

The following is my current markup:

<div class="content">
  <div class="parent_div">
    <div class="hotqcontent">
      content of first div goes here...
    </div>
    <hr>
  </div>
  <div class="parent_div">
    <div class="hotqcontent">
      content of second div goes here...
    </div>
    <hr>
  </div>
  <div class="parent_div">
    <div class="hotqcontent">
      content of third div goes here...
    </div>
    <hr>
  </div>
  <div class="parent_div">
    <div class="hotqcontent">
      content of fourth div goes here...
    </div>
    <hr>
  </div>
</div>

What I would like to achieve is when a user hovers / mouseovers a parent div, the contents of the child div contained within should be revealed.

To achieve this I wrote the following jQuery script but it doesn't appear to be working. It's not even showing the alert!

<script> 
$(document).ready(function() {
  $(function() {
    $('.parent_div').hover(function() {
      alert("hello");
      $('.hotqcontent').toggle();
    });
  });
}); 
</script>

How can I modify or replace my existing code to achieve the desired output?

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With .hotqcontent you are selecting every element with this class. But you want to select only the .hotqcontent element underneath the parent.

$('.hotqcontent', this).toggle();
answered 2013-05-10T10:00:12.817

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