When to choose mouseover and hover function

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What are the differences between jQuery  mouseover   and  hover   functions  If they are totally same why jQuery uses both

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From the official jQuery documentation    mouseover   Bind an event handler to the  mouseover  JavaScript event  or trigger that event on an element        hover     Bind one or two handlers to the matched elements  to be executed when the mouse pointer enters and leaves the elements     Calling   selector  hover handlerIn  handlerOut  is shorthand for     selector  mouseenter handlerIn  mouseleave handlerOut         mouseenter    Bind an event handler to be fired when the mouse enters an element  or trigger that handler on an element   mouseover fires when the pointer moves into the child element as well  while mouseenter fires only when the pointer moves into the bound element      What this means  Because of this   mouseover   is not the same as  hover    for the same reason  mouseover   is not the same as  mouseenter        selector   mouseover over function     may fire multiple times     enter and exit functions only called once per element per entry and exit    selector   hover enter function  exit function

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From the offical docs   http   api jquery com hover       The  hover   method binds handlers for both mouseenter and mouseleave events  You can use it to simply apply behavior to an element during the time the mouse is within the element

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You can try it out http   api jquery com mouseover  on the jQuery doc page  It s a nice little  interactive demo that makes it very clear and you can actually see for yourself   In short  you ll notice that a mouse over event occurs on an element when you are over it - coming from either its child OR parent element  but a mouse enter event only occurs when the mouse moves from the parent element to the element

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hover   function accepts two function arguments  one for mouseenter event and one for mouseleave event

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As you can read at http   api jquery com mouseenter      The mouseenter JavaScript event is proprietary to Internet Explorer    Because of the event s general utility  jQuery simulates this event so   that it can be used regardless of browser  This event is sent to an   element when the mouse pointer enters the element  Any HTML element   can receive this event

[jquery] When to choose mouseover() and hover() function?

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