Problem with jQuery mouseleave firing when container has select box

Question

I have a two containers -- one is nested inside of another. When I hover over the parent, I want the child container to appear. When I mouseout, I want the child container to fadeout. The problem I'm having is the child container has a form that contains a "select box". When the user selects the select box -- the mouseleave event is accidentally fired.

How can I stop the select box from tripping the mouseleave event?

You can see my working code here: http://jsfiddle.net/rsturim/9TZyh/3/

Here's a summary of my script:

$('#parent-container').live("mouseenter", function () {
    var $this = $(this),
    $selectOptionsContainer = $this.find('#child-container');
    $selectOptionsContainer.stop().fadeTo('slow', 1.0);
}).live("mouseleave", function (e) {
    var $this = $(this),
    $selectOptionsContainer = $this.find('#child-container');
    $selectOptionsContainer.stop().hide();              
});

edit: appears fine in WebKit-based browsers. Fails in Firefox and IE7-IE9.

Answer 1

In most cases you should simply be able to check to see if the event target was a select element, and only continue in the case that it wasn't. Seems much cleaner than the accepted solution, and worked well in my case.

I've modified the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Dygerati/uj3ZC/5/

$('#parent-container').live("mouseenter", function() {
    var $this = $(this),
        $selectOptionsContainer = $this.find('#child-container');
    $selectOptionsContainer.stop().fadeTo('slow', 1.0);
}).live("mouseleave", function(e) {
    if(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase() != "select") {
        var $this = $(this),
            $selectOptionsContainer = $this.find('#child-container');
        $selectOptionsContainer.stop().hide();
    }
});