Question

I want to have a function executed once on mouseenter then on mouseleave I would like to have the element to go back to its state.

My code produces an infinite loop. The mouse enters and the element flips infinitely until my mouse leaves.

$(document).ready(function() {
    var flipfunc = function() {
        var elem = $(this);
        if (!elem.data('flipped')) {
            elem.flip({
                direction: 'lr',
                speed: 250,
                onBefore: function() {
                    elem.html(elem.siblings('.sponsorData').html());
                }
            });
            elem.data('flipped', true);
            elem.addClass('sponsorFlipped');
            //elem.unbind('mouseenter', flipfunc);
        }
        else {
            elem.revertFlip();
            // Unsetting the flag:
            elem.data('flipped', false)
            //elem.unbind('mouseleave', rflipfunc);
        }

    }

    $('.sponsorFlip').bind('mouseenter', flipfunc);

    //$('.sponsorFlipped').bind('mouseleave', rflipfunc);

});

I have tried many solution, but I do not see where the issue is…

Answer 1

mouseenter event is triggered when it flips, so you have to detect whether mouse has moved out or not. This is one method to do it.

$(window).bind('mousemove', function(e){
    if($(e.target).hasClass("sponsorFlip")){
        mouseMovedOut = false;
    }else{
        mouseMovedOut = true;
    }
});

see a demo here ( tested only in FF ) : http://jsfiddle.net/tgg33/7/

Now the div gets flipped only when mouse enters. If you want to flip it back when mouse leaves you have to add mouseleave handler.