mouseleave event does not fire on mouse wheel scroll in IE11

Question

When using the mouse wheel to scroll down a page, the mouseleave event is not firing in IE11 until the cursor is moved. Works fine in Google Chrome.

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/tonyleeper/5vwf65f7/

HTML

<div class="box">Move the mouse cursor inside this box and observe the mouseenter event fires (background goes green). Next, use the mouse wheel to scroll down without moving the mouse cursor position, observe the mouseleave event doesn't fire. Finally, move the mouse cursor even a little, say 1px, and observe that the mouseleave event then fires</div>

CSS

.box {
    font-family: arial;
    font-size: 16px;
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    background-color: #000077;
    color: #ffffff;
}

JavaScript

var box = document.getElementsByClassName('box')[0];

box.addEventListener('mouseenter', function (e) {
    document.body.setAttribute('style', 'background-color: #007700');
});

box.addEventListener('mouseleave', function (e) {
    document.body.setAttribute('style', 'background-color: #ffffff');
});

Are there any known workarounds for this to force the event to fire on scroll?

jQuery would appear to have the same issue: https://api.jquery.com/mouseleave/

Answer 1

You could put your listener into a function and also attach a scroll eventListener. There you could check if the mouse cursor is still 'inside' the 'box' and call the appropriate function:

var triggerOnMouseLeave = function(e) {
    document.body.setAttribute('style', 'background-color: #ffffff');
}

box.addEventListener('mouseleave', triggerOnMouseLeave);

var triggerOnScroll = function(e) {
    // Using jQuery here
    if (!$(box).is(':hover')) {
        triggerOnMouseLeave();
    }
}

window.addEventListener('scroll', triggerOnScroll);