DOM3 mouseenter & mouseleave Events

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.

Documentation

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

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 30
• Opera release 17
• Opera for Android release 17

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Shipped
• Edge: Shipped
• Safari: In development
• Web Developers: Strongly positive

Owner

• mkwst@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14