Confusion with jQuery mouseout event

Question

My HTML:

<div id="parent">
    <div id="child">cx</div>
</div>

When I use jQuery

$('#parent').mouseout(function(){
    //something here
});

I wonder why when my mouse enter the child div the function fires. I'm still inside parent div. I want that mouseout function to fire only when I leave the parent div not when I'm on any child div.

http://jsbin.com/esiju/ << example

Cheers

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/350639/how-to-disable-mouseout-events-triggered-by-child-elements — Jesse Millikan, Apr 04 '10 at 17:47

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '10 at 17:48

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This is what the mouseleave event is for.

$('#parent').mouseleave(function(){
//something here
});

http://api.jquery.com/mouseleave/

answered Apr 04 '10 at 17:48

jimyi

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 19 '14 at 11:50

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.mouseleave works perfectly here:

$("#parent").mouseleave(function(){
    //Enter stuff that should happen when mouse leaves 
    //the boundaries of the parent element
    // NOT including the children
});

.mouseout fires on mousing over child elements!

edited Feb 19 '14 at 11:50

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answered Feb 19 '14 at 11:24

nikjohn

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '10 at 18:02

There seems to be a bit of difference between the mouseout and mouseover events. jimyi has the correct solution for your problem, I just wanted to include some additional links for completeness.

Confusion with jQuery mouseout event

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