I tried them as the description in the reference was not clear as to why it would be useful.
It doesn't solve the problem. That it does is make sure that if you reached the child by entering over the parent, the child event will be released only by exiting back over the parent. Kind of odd..... On Oct 30, 2:16 pm, Scott Sauyet <scott.sau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 30, 9:30 am, jmatthews <jmatth...@xexam.net> wrote: > > > When I mouseover a child, it is thinking it is just the contents of > > parent. I need to restrict mouseover to children only, regardless of > > the fact that they are encapsulated by parent. > > You might want to look at the mouseenter and mouseleave events. > > http://docs.jquery.com/Events/mouseenter > > -- Scott