Re: Clarification on mouseenter/mouseleave

  On 1/07/10 11:14 AM, Joćo Eiras wrote:
> On , Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>   On 29/06/10 11:08 AM, Joćo Eiras wrote:
>>> After further review I got confused. IE does set the target to the
>>> inner element, it fires the listeners on both the inner element and
>>> outer element, but doesn't bubble up to the body.
>>> Does this mean that the user agent has to fire an event for each node
>>> that is unhovered, each one with their separate capturing phases ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Looks like it.
>> And the W3C DOM model won't haven't an equivalent to fromElement - for
>> mouseleave - and toElement - for mouseenter. I can't see a need for
>> them, but would be nice to know how they are being used on the web.
>>
>
> There is, it's relatedTarget.
>

For mouseleave, relatedTarget is equivalent to toElement.
For mouseenter, relatedTarget is equivalent to fromElement.

Received on Thursday, 1 July 2010 01:20:24 UTC