Hallo MudGuard,
Stupid.
Why use javascript to set CSS properties if CSS alone can do the job?
Not stupid at all, because CSS alone can't do the job as described!
As far as I understood Mike, he wanted to exempt a section of an ancestor element from the hover effect. Anyway that will only work for the ancestor element as a whole and not just for the section and it will only work with javascript since there are no ancestor selectors in CSS!
Gruß Gernot