Question

I want to display my chart when the mouse is hover some element. Everything works fine except I can’t stop the slideToggle returns its original position.

Once the mouse is “out-of-target” it contracts, but if the mouse still at the chart it should stay appearing.

$(document).ready(function () {
            $("#test").hover(function () {
                $("#chart_div").slideToggle('slow');
            });
        });  

I made a jsFiddle for this question instead of pasting here the whole bunch of code.

EDIT

Here is a goal example.

Answer 1

You can do it by defining both mouseenter and mouseleave events like this sample:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#test").mouseenter(function() {
        $("#chart_div").show('slow');
    });
    $(".outerClass").mouseleave(function() {
        if(!$('#chart_div').is(':hover')) {
            $("#chart_div").hide('slow');
        }
    });
});​

Where your html structure should resemble this sample:

<div class="outerClass">
    <div id="test"><strong>TEST.</strong></div>
    <div id="chart_div"></div>
</div>
<div id="another_div">here is out of the pie div</div>

Live Example