Why my createdElement is doubling in reactjs useEffect()?

June 2, 2022

So my issue here is quite simple but you don’t have to understand the others codes just only the useEffect() parts..

My custom mousecursor text is doubling when I tried to hover the text

here is the lines of codes.

    const cursorIntro = document.querySelector(".cursor");
    const options = document.querySelector(".introduction .nav-options");

    options.addEventListener("mousemove", function s(e) {
      var rect = options.getBoundingClientRect();
      var x = e.clientX - rect.left; //x position within the element.
      var y = e.clientY - rect.top;
      cursorIntro.style.left = x + "px";
      cursorIntro.style.top = y + "px";
    });
    function OnSelect() {
      const optionsSelection = document.querySelectorAll(".options");
      optionsSelection.forEach((elem, i) => {
        // console.log(elem.children[1].children[0].children[0])
        elem.children[1].children[0].children[0].addEventListener(
          "mouseleave",
          () => {
            cursorIntro.removeChild(cursorIntro.lastChild);
            // cursorIntro.innerHTML = ""
          }
        );

        elem.children[1].children[0].children[0].addEventListener(
          "mouseenter",
          () => {
            // elem.children[1].children[0].children[0].classList.add('')
            const createElement = document.createElement("h4");
            createElement.innerText =
              elem.children[1].children[0].children[0].dataset.name;
            cursorIntro.appendChild(createElement);
          }
        );
      });
    }

    OnSelect();

As you see I have a custom mousecursor on it and because that is where I want to append the text when it hover the text elements.

This is inside the useEffect() when I’m calling it…but one that I wasn’t sure is that I only call back once the addEventListener per each.

The reason I used createElement because if I used innerHTML without using a createElement I can’t add another some items because my plan here is to added something more in mousecursor

THIS IS THE CODEPEN