Availability

JavaScript 1.1

Synopsis

<a ... onmouseout="handler" ... >
<area ... onmouseout="handler" ...
> link.onmouseout

Description

The onmouseout property of a Link object specifies an event handler function that is invoked when the user moves the mouse off a hypertext link. The initial value of this property is a function that contains the JavaScript statements specified by the onmouseout attribute of the <a> or <area> tag that defined the Link object. When an event handler function is defined in this way by an HTML attribute, it is executed in the scope of element rather than in the scope of the containing window.

In the Netscape 4 event model, the onmouseout handler function is passed an Event object as an argument. In the IE event model, no argument is passed, but the applicable Event object is available as the event property of the Window object that contains the hypertext link.

See Also

Chapter 19; EventListener, EventTarget, and MouseEvent in the DOM reference section