Name
HTMLElement.onmouseover — the handler invoked when the mouse moves over an element
Availability
JavaScript 1.2; HTML 4.0
Synopsis
<elementonmouseover="handler" ... >element.onmouseover
Description
The onmouseover property of an HTMLElement object
specifies an event handler function that is invoked when the user
moves the mouse pointer over the element.
The initial value of this property is a function that contains the
JavaScript statements specified by the onmouseover
attribute of the HTML tag that defined the object. When an event
handler function is defined by an HTML attribute, it is executed in
the scope of element rather than in the
scope of the containing window.
In Netscape 4, the onmouseover handler function is
passed an Event object as an argument. In IE 4, no argument is
passed, but the applicable Event object is available as the
event property of the Window object that contains
the element.