onmouseover event

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element onmouseover = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onmouseover = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onmouseover", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("mouseover", handler, useCapture)

Standards information

• HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 18.2.3

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No

Event handler parameters

• pEvtObj [in]
  Type: IHTMLEventObj

Remarks

The event occurs when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object, and it does not repeat unless the user moves the mouse pointer out of the object and then back into it.

Initiates any action associated with this event.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

• Move the mouse pointer into an object.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

• HTMLAnchorEvents2
• HTMLAreaEvents2
• HTMLButtonElementEvents2
• HTMLControlElementEvents2
• HTMLDocumentEvents2
• HTMLElementEvents2
• HTMLFormElementEvents2
• HTMLImgEvents2
• HTMLFrameSiteEvents2
• HTMLInputFileElementEvents2
• HTMLInputImageEvents2
• HTMLInputTextElementEvents2
• HTMLLabelEvents2
• HTMLLinkElementEvents2
• HTMLMapEvents2
• HTMLMarqueeElementEvents2
• HTMLObjectElementEvents2
• HTMLOptionButtonElementEvents2
• HTMLScriptEvents2
• HTMLSelectElementEvents2
• HTMLStyleElementEvents2
• HTMLTableEvents2
• HTMLTextContainerEvents2
• HTMLWindowEvents2
• HTMLWindowEvents4

See also

Reference

onmousewheel

onmousedown

onmousemove

onmouseout

onmouseup

 

 

Build date: 1/23/2012