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HTML

<div>yay</div>

CSS

div {
    padding: 10px;
    height: 30px;
    background: red;
    font-size: 2em;
    color: #fff;
    -webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}

div:hover,
div.hover{
    padding: 20px;
    color: #ccc;
    height: 100px;
    background: blue;
}

JavaScript

$('div').trigger('mouseenter') //does not work
    
// $('div').addClass('hover') //works but i don't want this