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DOM3 mouseenter & mouseleave Events

Category
User input
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 30)
Intent stage
None

Summary

MouseEvents dispatched when a pointing device is moved onto or off of an Element or one of its descendents. Similar to mouseover and mouseout respectively, but are not cancelable and are not dispatched more than one "round-trip" into an Element's boundary.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/mouseenter https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/mouseleave

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