On 6/18/07, Ken Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Daniel N wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ... > > It seems that the mouse* events are fired for every sub element > > contained in the list item, but the actual list item itself may or may > > not fire an event at all. With all these events firing for mouseover > > and mouseout when the mouse is still completely within the list item, > > it really doesn't go very well. > > > > Is the the wrong way to approach this? Is there anywhere where I > > could go to get some information on an appropriate way to handle this? > > > This is a use case for mouseenter and mouseleave. I submitted a patch > for it; it is scheduled to be part of Prototype 1.6. (see > http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8354) > > Without the patch, you can add the code below to the beginning of your > mouseover and mouseout functions so that mousing over and out of child > elements has no effect. > > --Ken Snyder > > > onMouseOver: function(event) { > var currentTarget = this.container; > var relatedTarget = $(event.relatedTarget || event.fromElement); > if (relatedTarget==currentTarget || > relatedTarget.childOf(currentTarget)) return; > ... > }, > onMouseOut: function(event) { > var currentTarget = this.container; > var relatedTarget = $(event.relatedTarget || event.toElement); > if (relatedTarget==currentTarget || > relatedTarget.childOf(currentTarget)) return; > ... > }
Sweet. Thankyou Ken, I'll give this a try when I get home tonight. Cheers Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
