Correct behavior.
You're seeing it because of event bubbling. PPK explains this
nicely, as well as providing a short cross-browser solution similar
to Prototype's Event.element();
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_mouse.html
Checking mouse position like you're trying to do is the hard way. =)
TAG
On May 11, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Sudara wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I spent an hour or three chasing down a desired effect that mootools
> implements, namely the simulation of onmouseleave and onmouseenter
> events.
>
> Why?
>
> Lets say you have a Menu. A ul element that contains many li elements.
> If you want to have a function (maybe an effect) fire when the mouse
> moves outside of the ul, you are out of luck. Observe the mouseout
> function like so:
>
> Event.observe(nav, 'mouseout', function(e) {
> // you would think this would work
> alert('mouse is outside of nav?...');
> });
>
> and what actually happens is that every time the mouse leaves the
> element OR crosses the boundary of a child element (li), the event is
> fired.
>
> Instead of implementing onmouseleave/onmouseenter the way that
> mootools has it, I saw that the sweet prototype API has a Pointer
> class.
>
> I'm still a bit green with Prototype, but my answer came in this
> shape:
>
> Event.observe(nav, 'mouseout', function(e) {
> if(!Position.within(nav,Event.pointerX(e),Event.pointerY(e))){
> alert('...mouse is now truly outside nav...');
> });
> }
> });
>
> Have a good day!
> Sudara
>
>
> >
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