The main problem with triggering events using .hover()
or other mouse in/out jQuery methods is called bubbling
.
For your particular issue, your best bet is using the jQuery plugin hoverIntent. If you visit their website, they have a good example about what dealing with bubbled events mean.
After you loaded the hoverIntent js file, you can create two functions to open/close fancybox that will be called by hoverIntent
as callbacks :
function openFancybox(){
$(this).trigger("click");
}
function closeFancybox(){
$.fancybox.close();
}
.... then your hoverIntent
custom script :
$(".mini-view").hoverIntent({
sensitivity: 7,
interval:500,
timeout:0,
over: openFancybox,
out: closeFancybox
}); // hoverIntent
(see documentation to fine-tune your settings)
...last, your fancybox
custom script will simply look like:
$(".mini-view").fancybox({
'overlayShow' : false,
'autoScale' : true
}); // fancybox
SEE WORKING DEMO and feel free to explore the source code.
SIDE NOTES:
To simplify your code, you could actually apply both plugins in a single step to the same selector :
$(".mini-view")
.fancybox({
'overlayShow' : false,
'autoScale' : true
})
.hoverIntent({
sensitivity: 7,
interval:500,
timeout:0,
over: openFancybox,
out: closeFancybox
});
Because the options you used in your code, I assumed you were using fancybox v1.3.4.
UPDATE [March 2015] :
DEMO using the latest versions of Fancybox (v2.1.5) and hoverIntent (v1.8.0)