Thank you vey much. that exactly I "intend" to have :) On May 10, 8:29 am, spinnach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is a plugin that does exactly what you need, > hoverintent..http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html > > dennis. > > joomlafreak wrote: > > Mouseover is a very sensitive trigger and if a page/section has many > > triggers for mouseover they all inevitably register the event on > > mouseover and kill the show. I want to achieve a way of triggering the > > mouseover event only if the mouseover happens for a little longer and > > cancel the event otherwise. I feel many people would have felt the > > need of having this at some point. > > > Say the mouseover even will register only if the mouseover happens for > > 0.5 second and if not the event is cancelled or not triggered. I have > > thought on this but could not come up with a nice enough way of doing > > it. Does anyone have any idea as to how I can do it. > > > thanks