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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:14:58+00:00

I have a problem with my mouseover and mouseout functions. When I mouseover a

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I have a problem with my mouseover and mouseout functions. When I mouseover a link, it shows a hidden <div>, and when I mouseout of the div it hides the div. The problem is that if I mouseover a link, then I move mouse somewhere else which is not over the div, the div won’t go away.

If I use the mouseout event of the link to set the visibility of the div, then I won’t be able to hover on the div.

Here’s my HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>
            Untitled Document
        </title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js">
        </script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                $("#show_div").mouseover(function() {
                    $("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
                });

                $("#hello").mouseover(function() {
                    $("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
                });
                $("#hello").mouseout(function() {
                    $("#hello").css('visibility', 'hidden');
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <br/>
        <br/>
        <br/>
        <br/>
        <a id="show_div" href="#">Link text</a>
        <div id="hello" style="visibility:hidden;">
            <ul>
                <li>
                    Coffee
                </li>
                <li>
                    Tea
                </li>
                <li>
                    Milk
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <br/>
        <br/>
    </body>    
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I use a setTimeout function to change the css property. Set the interval of the setTimeout to ~333-500 milliseconds, and set the mouseover for the Div to clear the timeout. Then, on the mouseout of the div itself, set the timer again 🙂

    Example/Answer:

    // timer for hiding the div
var hideTimer;

// show the DIV on mouse over
$("#show_div").mouseover(function() {
    // forget any hiding events in timer
    clearTimeout( hideTimer );
    $("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
});

$("#hello").mouseover(function() {
    clearTimeout( hideTimer );
    $("#hello").css('visibility', 'visible');
});

// set a timer to hide the DIV
$("#show_div").mouseout(function() {
    hideTimer = setTimeout( hideHello, 333 );
});

$("#hello").mouseout(function() {
    hideTimer = setTimeout( hideHello, 333 );
});

// hides the DIV
function hideHello() {
    $("#hello").css('visibility', 'hidden');
}
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