onmouseover event

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05/02/2017

Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object.

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element onmouseover = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.onmouseover = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("onmouseover", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("mouseover", handler, useCapture)

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	Yes
Cancelable	Yes

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]
Type: IHTMLEventObj

Standards information

HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 18.2.3

Remarks

The event occurs when the user moves the mouse pointer into the object, and it does not repeat unless the user moves the mouse pointer out of the object and then back into it.

Initiates any action associated with this event.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Move the mouse pointer into an object.

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