mouseout

The mouseout event is fired when a pointing device (usually a mouse) is moved off the element that has the listener attached or off one of its children. Note that it is also triggered on the parent when you move onto a child element, since you move out of the visible space of the parent. 

General info

Specification

DOM L3

Interface

MouseEvent

Bubbles

Yes

Cancelable

Yes

Target

Element

Default Action

None

Properties

Example

The following example illustrates the difference between mouseout and mouseleave events.

<ul id="test">
  <li>item 1</li>
  <li>item 2</li>
  <li>item 3</li>
</ul>
<script>
  var test = document.getElementById("test");
  // this handler will be executed only once when the cursor moves off the unordered list
  test.addEventListener("mouseleave", function( event ) {   
    // highlight the mouseleave target
    event.target.style.color = "purple";
    // reset the color after a short delay
    setTimeout(function() {
      event.target.style.color = "";
    }, 500);
  }, false);
  // this handler will be executed every time the cursor is moved off a different list-item
  test.addEventListener("mouseout", function( event ) {   
    // highlight the mouseout target
    event.target.style.color = "orange";
    // reset the color after a short delay
    setTimeout(function() {
      event.target.style.color = "";
    }, 500);
  }, false);
</script>

Browser compatibility

[1] Only works for <textarea> elements and some <input> element types.

[2] Implemented in bug 218093.

See also

• mousedown
• mouseup
• mousemove
• click
• dblclick
• mouseover
• mouseout
• mouseenter
• mouseleave
• contextmenu