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I have a problem with my mouseover and mouseout functions. When I mouseover a link, it shows a hidden <div>, and when I mouseout of the div it hides the div. The problem is that if I mouseover a link, then I move mouse somewhere else which is not over the div, the div won't go away.
If I use the mouseout event of the link to set the visibility of the div, then I won't be able to hover on the div.
Here's my HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>
Untitled Document
</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#show_div").mouseover(function() {
$("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
});
$("#hello").mouseover(function() {
$("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
});
$("#hello").mouseout(function() {
$("#hello").css('visibility', 'hidden');
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<a id="show_div" href="#">Link text</a>
<div id="hello" style="visibility:hidden;">
<ul>
<li>
Coffee
</li>
<li>
Tea
</li>
<li>
Milk
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<br/>
</body>
</html>
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I use a setTimeout function to change the css property. Set the interval of the setTimeout to ~333-500 milliseconds, and set the mouseover for the Div to clear the timeout. Then, on the mouseout of the div itself, set the timer again :)
Example/Answer:
// timer for hiding the div
var hideTimer;
// show the DIV on mouse over
$("#show_div").mouseover(function() {
// forget any hiding events in timer
clearTimeout( hideTimer );
$("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
});
$("#hello").mouseover(function() {
clearTimeout( hideTimer );
$("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
});
// set a timer to hide the DIV
$("#show_div").mouseout(function() {
hideTimer = setTimeout( hideHello, 333 );
});
$("#hello").mouseout(function() {
hideTimer = setTimeout( hideHello, 333 );
});
// hides the DIV
function hideHello() {
$("#hello").css('visibility', 'hidden');
}
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