[Javascript] Event question and finding pointer position at event

Steve Clay sclay at ufl.edu
Tue Mar 28 11:09:05 CST 2006


Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 11:39:32 AM, Triche Osborne wrote:
> each move. I'm thinking it means that "onmouseover" means quite
> literally what it says: Any time the mouse moves over the element, it 

No, onmouseover will fire the instant the mouse becomes "over" the element.
In Bill's case, the "refiring" of this is caused by the onmouseover event
of child elements bubbling down to the parent. See:
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_order.html

Steve
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