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Mouseover triggering underlaying sibling?

I have 2 sibling divs. One div is a sub-navigation that partially overlays the slider div. I have a mouseover event on the slider, which hides the sub-navigation.
The problem is, as soon as I mouse over the sub-navigation, the slider mouseover event is triggered even though my mouse isn't touching the slider yet - although the mouse is technically over the slider - it's just being overlayed by the sub-navigation.
Hopefully I explained this well that someone will understand. Is there any way around this issue?
Thanks.

If you are trying to hide the second sibling, this will work. Just replace the css class names (subNav, slider) with whatever they actually are. Also, instead of left:100px do whatever you wanted to do here to the second div.
div.subNav:hover + div.slider {
left: 100px;
}
The plus sign (+) is a "adjacent sibling selector" in css.

jQuery to update actual CSS

First off: I'm aware of the jQuery.css() function, but it doesn't work in my case. I'll explain why.
I have a jQuery color picker being used to change the highlighting of a website. I want to apply that color picker to the border of an element which only shows on hover.
The jQuery.css() function only applies the CSS to elements it finds, and does not work on the :hover CSS attribute.
I've tried adding a CSS class which I toggle on the hover, but it comes back to the same problem: I'm trying to change ONLY the hover value.
There's got to be a way to do this, but I've been searching StackOverflow and Google for the better part of an hour now, so I'm invoking xkcd #627

Use the hover event to achieve the same results.
$('selector').hover( function(){
//A function to execute when the mouse pointer enters the element.
$(this).css('property','value');
}, function(){
//A function to execute when the mouse pointer leaves the element.
$(this).css('property','value');
});

I'm adding this as an alternative answer.
If you need to dynamically change your CSS then there is something wrong with your CSS. It's very strange that you need a definition, that you can't toggle with a class and has to be generated dynamically.
Let's say you have a widget that can be in two modes: inactive or active. When it's active elements in it should respond visually to a hover event, when it's not, they shouldn't.
<div id="my-widget" class="my-widget-container">
<div class="element">Something to look at</div>
</div>
CSS
.my-widget-container .element { background-color: #ffffff; }
.my-widget-container.active .element:hover { background-color: #00ff00; }
You switch the mode by:
$("#my-widget").addClass("active");
This will activate the :hover line for the element which now appears interactive.
If I knew more about your situation I could perhaps fix a fitting solution.
Also, jQuery.css is poorly named, perhaps jQuery.style would be a better name since that is exactly what it does.

Lasso selectables disables CSS :hover state

I have a group of jquery ui selectable things inside a div which expands to full size upon the hover event. The desired effect is that people can select/multi-select/lasso as many of the select-able objects as they would like. When they are done selecting, and the mouse goes to another part of the page, the div returns to its minimized size.
Basically I have it working, but when I lasso-select multiple objects, it seems that the :hover state is canceled or disabled. This leads to the div pre-maturely returning to its original size, and therefore destroying the user experience.
jsfiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/Ty6RX/2/
The div in question contains the blue "All Customers". If you try lasso-selecting multiple objects you should see the problem. Any help is greatly appreciated!

when mouse is held down the element goes out of :hover and into the :active state w3schools reference. Fortunately, you can apply a CSS class to both states without interupting the user
try this
http://jsfiddle.net/Ty6RX/3/
#customer_picker:hover, #customer_picker:active {
...
height: 300px;
}

click events and css attributes not attaching to divs, possibly because divs are "mostly padding"

I'm trying to attach click events to a couple of divs. One of which has no height or width, just borders. Maybe it's just the browser, but the clicks are being triggered very unreliably. Even the css parameters .class:hover{} isn't really working.
$("body").on("click", "._tlh_dropdown, ._tlh_dropdown *", function (event) {
isn't working when the a div contained by ._tlh_dropdown is clicked. And the div ._tlh_dropdown_close_button is not removing it's parent div when clicked, nor turning a darker shade of gray when it is hovered over. What am I doing wrong here? I assume it has to do with the click event not being applied to the areas of the divs that are "just padding". Is this the case? How can I overcome this?
http://jsfiddle.net/UrNUM/7/

This is happening because the underline element that is a div element overlaps the elements in question . As you know div is a block level element.
One work around is to to set the 2 divs to inline-block
._tlh_dropdown_input_container, ._tlh_dropdown{
display: inline-block;
}
Check Fiddle for hover
If you want the div to be block level as it is then you can also play around with the z-index
._tlh_dropdown_close_button{
z-index: 1;
}
This will make sure the close div is always on top of the underlying container
UPDATE
2 events fire for every click event on the page..
So the content is not shown when u click on the image because of this condition
if ($targ.hasClass('_tlh_dropdown')
|| $targ.closest('._tlh_dropdown_content').length)
return;
This happens because the e.target when you click on the arrow image will be the arrow and not the tlh_dropdown .. So it fails on this condition and moves to the next statement where the content is removed.
Change it
if ($targ.hasClass('_tlh_dropdown')
|| $targ.closest('._tlh_dropdown').length
|| $targ.closest('._tlh_dropdown_content').length)
return;
It should work..
Check Fiddle
Also I feel the same can be accomplished with a lot less code. You can always have the HTML already built and then hide or show based on the condition.

Regarding the close button, if you hover "_tlh_dropdown_input_container" in the inspector, you can see that it overlaps the bottom part of the X button. That's why the hover/click event on the X is not caught below the middle of it.
Regarding the down arrow, just wrap it with another DIV on which you'll add the events. You can achieve minimal HTML by using a single DIV and adding the arrow to it using CSS :before or :after.

How to respond to a click outside a certain area?

My document looks like this:
Basically the background is one full-screen, transparent div. There are couple problems...if I just create the background div and don't apply any z-index to it, it ends up being on top of everything, and I cannot click on the box. If I set the z-index of the background div to be below the box, I can't seem to click on the background. What I want to do, it to be able to click both on the box, and the background.
var x = document.getElementById("bg");
x.addEventListener("click",reset,false);
function reset() {
alert("reset was clicked");
}
CLARIFICATION: box is on the same node level as the bg. it is not inside the bg div.

Take a look at this jQuery plugin - even if it doesn't solve your particular question the code could provide insight into your dilemma.
jQuery clickoutside

You must post your code so every one can help you. My test work correctly on Firefox and Chrome. If I'm guessing right, the background in your code isn't expanded. Try to remove html, body { width:100%; height:100%; } in my example to see the problem.
On IE browser, you need to use a transparent gif image as background of the background div, otherwise the background div may be unable to receive mouse click event.