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The Ins and Outs of Mouse Events

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JavaScript
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IE4, IE5
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Rollovers
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The Ins and Outs of Mouse Events
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Short Description
We show you the difference between the mouse over/out and the new mouse enter/leave events.

Long Description
IE 5.5 introduces new events for tracking when the mouse enters and leaves elements. We show you what makes these new events special and why the existing onmouseover and onmouseout events are all you need.

Author: Scott isaacs
Date/ Version: 8/29/2000
Submission URL: http://www.SiteExperts.com/tips/functions/ts25/page1.asp
Submission Date: Aug 29,2000
Last Update: Aug 29,2000

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Overall Rating: 4

matjday on Aug 30, 2000 at 1:52:49 AM Rating: 3

An interresting 'emerging technologies' technique - one for future reference.

One point - it's not made clear in the article that the whole thing relates to MS's event bubbling model. OK, if I view the site in NN I get a helpful message but if I just view in IE I could come away with the idea that the events are propagated in the same in all browsers.
Given the great number of "Why doesn't X work in NN?" questions posted on this site this is clearly an area of confusion amoung your visitors - maybe you could do a bit more to help them out.
P.S. Yes I have read many of your excellent articles on DOM/event-model differences between MS&NN but the questions keep coming so I believe this is something that needs constant re-affirming.

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