Hi Brian and everyone else for the suggestions. I ended up using your hoverIntent plugin. worked like a charm. thanks a bunch everyone.
On Apr 21, 3:21 pm, Brian Cherne <br...@cherne.net> wrote: > The hoverIntent plugin was meant just for this purpose. There's an initial > delay (unavoidable) but if the user's mouse slows down significantly the > hover event will fire... if their mouse continues moving the hover event is > again delayed (and rechecked). It was originally conceived for when you have > a grid of large hover-able items... where a simple delay might be > awkward/misleading, but not to prolong the delay if the user rests their > mouse over an item. > > <http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html> > > Brian. > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:29 AM, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From a user-interaction standpoint, you might want to rethink the > > amount of time you delay. Obviously I don't know your specific > > situation, so maybe there's a very strong indicator to the user to > > wait for the effect. If there isn't, just beware that while you know > > what's supposed to happen when you hover, a user won't and 2 seconds > > is a LONG time in terms of user interactivity (it seems long even when > > you do know something will happen--user impatience with UI behavior is > > very short). Check out Amazon.com's top nav (the little down arrows) > > for an example of a short delay (something like 400ms). > > > HTH :) > > > On Apr 20, 3:33 pm, geocalleo <gcalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way in jQuery for me to disable > > > a hover event for a few seconds and then execute it only if the mouse > > > pointer is still hovering over the particular element I have set the > > > hover event to. > > > > So the user would hover over a link and if after 2 seconds was still > > > hovering over it, the hover event would then execute. Otherwise, > > > nothing would happen. > > > > I've been trying to find out about it for sometime now but I am > > > exhausted with searching. > > > > Thanks.
