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onmouseout event

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Fires when the user moves the mouse pointer outside the boundaries of the object.

Syntax

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

Standards information

HTML 4.01 Specification, Section 18.2.3

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	No
Cancelable	No

Event handler parameters

pEvtObj [in]: Type: IHTMLEventObj

Remarks

When the user moves the mouse over an object, one HTMLDocumentEvents2::onmouseover event occurs, followed by one or more HTMLDocumentEvents2::onmousemove events as the user moves the mouse pointer within the object. One HTMLDocumentEvents2::onmouseout event occurs when the user moves the mouse pointer out of the object.

Initiates any action associated with this event.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

Move the mouse pointer out of an object.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces: