jquery - Change background color on mouseover and remove it after mouseout

Question

I have table which class is forum. My jquery code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('.forum').bind("mouseover", function(){
            var color  = $(this).css("background-color");

            $(this).css("background", "#380606");

            $(this).bind("mouseout", function(){
                $(this).css("background", color);
            })    
        })    
    })
</script>

It perfectly works, but is it possible to do it in more efficient way without var color = $(this).css("background-color");. Just after mouseout leave the previous background-color and remove #380606? Thank you.

Answer 1

If you don't care about IE ≤6, you could use pure CSS ...

.forum:hover { background-color: #380606; }

.forum { color: white; }
.forum:hover { background-color: #380606 !important; }
/* we use !important here to override specificity. see http://stackoverflow.com/q/5805040/ */

#blue { background-color: blue; }

<meta charset=utf-8>

<p class="forum" style="background-color:red;">Red</p>
<p class="forum" style="background:green;">Green</p>
<p class="forum" id="blue">Blue</p>