Detect mouseMove out event for HTML canvas element

Question

mouseMove event is for moving on the canvas itself, but I can't detect when the mouse leaves the canvas.

Is there an option to detect when the mouse is moving out of the canvas?

Answer 1

Have you tried mouseout?

element.addEventListener ("mouseout", myFunction, false);

Answer 2

Here's a list of all mouse events that apply to html elements: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_eventattributes.asp (scroll down to Mouse Events).