What is the difference between the mouseover and mouseenter events?
Mouseenter and mouseleave do not react to event bubbling, while mouseover and mouseout do.
Here's an article that describes the behavior.
You can try out the following example from the jQuery doc page. It's a nice little, interactive demo that makes it very clear and you can actually see for yourself.
var i = 0;
$("div.overout")
.mouseover(function() {
i += 1;
$(this).find("span").text("mouse over x " + i);
})
.mouseout(function() {
$(this).find("span").text("mouse out ");
});
var n = 0;
$("div.enterleave")
.mouseenter(function() {
n += 1;
$(this).find("span").text("mouse enter x " + n);
})
.mouseleave(function() {
$(this).find("span").text("mouse leave");
});div.out {
width: 40%;
height: 120px;
margin: 0 15px;
background-color: #d6edfc;
float: left;
}
div.in {
width: 60%;
height: 60%;
background-color: #fc0;
margin: 10px auto;
}
p {
line-height: 1em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="out overout">
<span>move your mouse</span>
<div class="in">
</div>
</div>
<div class="out enterleave">
<span>move your mouse</span>
<div class="in">
</div>
</div>In short, you'll notice that a mouse over event occurs on an element when you are over it - coming from either its child OR parent element, but a mouse enter event only occurs when the mouse moves from outside this element to this element.
Or as the mouseover() docs put it:
[
.mouseover()] can cause many headaches due to event bubbling. For instance, when the mouse pointer moves over the Inner element in this example, a mouseover event will be sent to that, then trickle up to Outer. This can trigger our bound mouseover handler at inopportune times. See the discussion for.mouseenter()for a useful alternative.