Creating a way to use the F command to hover and not click.

[ghost]

Many website such as Amazon use menus that need to be hovered over instead of clicked to open up more items.

If we could add in some way of using the F command to "hover the mouse" instead of clicking.

[cyberhck]

I'm not sure if it'll work on every site though, some might be listening to onMouseEnter (amazon does for their menu-aim thing), some websites might be using :hover psuedo class, not sure if it's possible, but definitely a good feature to add.

Maybe instead of F we can go for something else? since it's a little lesser used feature than link, right? maybe on H for hover?

[smblott-github]

Perhaps we should add something like...

map X LinkHints.activateMode hover
map X LinkHints.activateMode copyLinkText
map X LinkHints.activateMode openInNewWindow

(and so on).

[mrmr1993]

IMO better would be

map X LinkHints.activateMode action=hover
map X LinkHints.activateMode action=copyText
map X LinkHints.activateMode action=copyUrl
map X LinkHints.activateMode action=openWindow

this also opens us up to do things like

map X LinkHints.activateMode action=click shift=true ctrl=true

I'm not a big fan of the naked options, since it could really limit our flexibility later, and opens us up to nonsense like

map X LinkHints.activateMode hover copyLinkText

But yes, we should do something like this.

[smblott-github]

Agreed.

[everyonesdesign]

Thought about the same thing today, it'd be awesome. Any updates on this?

[Trollwut]

Also want to know if someone had an idea on how to solve this :)

Also wouldn't it suffice to just place the mouse cursor above the link?

[alexanderfarr]

Is there a feature to hover with Vimium already or is there a plan until when it will be supported?

[gdh1995]

3097 should have fixed this. @alexanderfarr

[Trollwut]

Can someone explain how I can hover something? I fear I'm too stupid to understand it in the linked MR.

[gdh1995]

This MR adds a new option (aka.; parameter) to the command of LinkHints.activateMode. So you just need to open the option page, map a key sequence to the command and append an option of "action=hover" to the end of the line.

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Can someone explain how I can hover something? I fear I'm too stupid to understand it in the linked MR.

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[duckyb]

This worked for me:

• map e LinkHints.activateMode action=hover

The   stuff is just confusing

PS. Tested on Amazon and it works, for Aliexpress it doesn't work.

[YusufGandhi]

Can confirm Alibaba-related websites still cannot use this hover capability. Is there anything that I am missing here?

[gdh1995]

@YusufGandhi Could you provide snapshot or detailed place of the buttons?

BTW, hover only means to use a simulated event to let page JS run something, while it won't make browsers show link URLs at the bottom-left corner.

[YusufGandhi]

@gdh1995 this is the animated gif. I am using e as the hover mapping. However, when I tried to hover the "Sell on AliExpress" by pressing AA, it didn't reveal the menu.

[gdh1995]

The page uses CSS to act on hover (.ng-sub:hover .ng-sub-list), and web extensions have no API to change CSS states, so there's nothing Vimium can do to show the menu.

[YusufGandhi]

@gdh1995 ah, I see. so, it works when it's JS and won't work for CSS hover, correct?

[gdh1995]

Yes.

[jaymzh]

This is necessary to react on FB with anything other than 'like`. I tried the above hover trick, but it didn't work.

[WoxWik]

Any way to cancel the hover?

[gdh1995]

@WoxWik Escape next to a hover action will execute an "unhover" action. For example, on Wikipedia a "hover" action on a link shows a card, and Escape will make the card disappear.

[hxu]

Does the feature in #3097 work with Filtered Hints mode? I was not able to get the mapped key to work, possibly because it was clashing with the filtering mode and it thought that I was typing more of the link I wanted to filter to.

[gdh1995]

@hxu This doesn't affect Filtered Hints.

[mmikeww]

issue should be closed, see comment above, #3097 works, solution is added to wiki here: https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Tips-and-Tricks#hovering-over-links-using-linkhints