Differences In MouseEvents

mouseover, mouseout and mouseenter, mouseleave events provide quite similar functionalities, but they work in different scenarios.

mouseover event is fired when the pointer is moved onto the element which has the listener attached or onto one of its descendants. Since when moving onto the child element, a mouseover event is fired from the child element and bubbles up to the parent element.

mouseout event is fired when the pointer is moved off the element which has the listener attached or off one of its descendants. Notice when the pointer is moved onto a child element, the listener on the parent will also be triggered since the pointer move out of the parent’s visible space. mouseout event will also bubble up.

mouseenter is fired only when the pointer is moved onto the element that has the listener attached. Different from mouseover, mouseenter doesn’t bubble up and it will not be triggered when the pointer is moved onto its descendants.

mouseleave is fired only when the pointer is moved out of the element that has the listener attached and all of its descendants. mouseleave event also doesn’t bubble up.

Differences between mouseove, mouseout and mouseenter, mouseleave

Combined mouseenter with mouseleave, they work in the way like :hover in CSS.