Name
HTMLElement.onmouseover — the handler invoked when the mouse moves over an element
Availability
JavaScript 1.2; HTML 4.0
Synopsis
<element
onmouseover="handler
" ... >element
.onmouseover
Description
The onmouseover
property of an HTMLElement object
specifies an event handler function that is invoked when the user
moves the mouse pointer over the element
.
The initial value of this property is a function that contains the
JavaScript statements specified by the onmouseover
attribute of the HTML tag that defined the object. When an event
handler function is defined by an HTML attribute, it is executed in
the scope of element
rather than in the
scope of the containing window.
In Netscape 4, the onmouseover
handler function is
passed an Event object as an argument. In IE 4, no argument is
passed, but the applicable Event object is available as the
event
property of the Window object that contains
the element
.
See Also
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