I am not aware of an easy way to perform a function when hovering over a day with the jQuery UI datepicker so I am trying to do a work around by assigning a class and then calling a hover function:

```
$('.someDate').hover(function() { alert(this) } );

```

This does not work how I would like it though because it returns `[object HTML TableCellElement]`. How could I assign an attribute to each date cell `td` tag so that I can retrieve the date value through that method.

Or am i completely missing a really obvious way of doing this?