Problem Dynamically Replacing Cufon Font with Hover

So here’s my problem. I have Cufon font replacement which works fine. When the page loads, Cufon works as expected:

Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'First Font', hover: true }); 

All links with the prettyFont class are replaced, with hover functionality enabled. The problem comes when I replace the Cufon font after page load using this code:

$.getScript('newfont.js', function() {
    Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'New Font', hover: true });
    Cufon.refresh();
});

The new font shows up, but when I hover over any of the Cufon elements, it changes back to the old font. It seems that the hover option binds to the mouseover or mouseenter event to switch to the hover version of the original font, but it doesn’t change when you change the font. I was able to work around it using jQuery clone (cycle through each element Cufon replaced, swap out all HTML inside each element for just the text(), and then use jQuery replaceWith() to swap each item for its clone(). But that seems a little roundabout.

Is there an easier or more efficient way?

I am not sure, but try using jquery’s live() function. There are always issues with this cufon font dynamic replacement methods, hope this will be of little help.

Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'New Font', hover: 'true' });

revaxarts said
Try

Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'New Font', hover: 'true' });

That’s the same as the code I’m using…it replaces the font, but the hover state is still the old font.

fillerspace said

revaxarts said
Try

Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'New Font', hover: 'true' });

That’s the same as the code I’m using…it replaces the font, but the hover state is still the old font.

Did you noticed the apostrophe around true ?

revaxarts said

fillerspace said

revaxarts said
Try

Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'New Font', hover: 'true' });

That’s the same as the code I’m using…it replaces the font, but the hover state is still the old font.

Did you noticed the apostrophe around true ?

Ah…I missed that. I tried it with the single quotes, and it is still the same. I guess I’ll have to stick with the jQuery clone hack:

$.getScript('newfont.js', function() {
    $('a.prettyFont').each(function() {
        $(this).html($(this).text());
        var clone = $(this).clone();
        $(this).replaceWith(clone);
    });
    Cufon.replace('a.prettyFont', { fontFamily: 'New Font', hover: true });
    Cufon.refresh();
});