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#5884 closed bug (fixed)

Opened January 21, 2010 12:03AM UTC

Closed April 17, 2011 05:34PM UTC

live mouseenter/mouseleave events don't fire as expected when nested

Reported by: oyejorge Owned by: brandon
Priority: low Milestone: 1.6
Component: event Version: 1.4
Keywords: live mouseenter mouseleave Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

I found that when using the mouseenter/mouseleave events with the .live() method, the results were not the same as if I used the .bind() method.

When using the bind() method a nested mouseenter will not trigger the outer mouseleave. But when using live() the outer mouseleave will be triggered.

See attached test document.

Thanks for this amazing product!

Attachments (1)
  • mouseenter.html (1.2 KB) - added by oyejorge January 21, 2010 12:04AM UTC.

    Shows differences between bind() and live() with mouseenter/mouseleave

Change History (4)

Changed August 08, 2010 12:09AM UTC by Licensed to Gil comment:1

I've also found this issue and narrowed it down - it only occurs when the parent and child elements have the events bound with the same selector.

Example:

// Problem occurs:
$('#outer, #inner').live('mouseenter mouseleave', handler);

// No problem:
$('#outer').live('mouseenter mouseleave', handler);
$('#inner').live('mouseenter mouseleave', handler);

Basically, the live event handler code in jQuery is only checking if the selectors are different instead of checking the parent/child relationship.

I've got a quick patch here:

http://github.com/gilmoreorless/jquery/commit/7774ed588fa04006cad2c729122816af6b019f2c

Cheers,

Gil

Changed October 25, 2010 07:51AM UTC by SlexAxton comment:2

milestone: 1.41.5
priority: majorlow
status: newopen

Changed April 17, 2011 05:34PM UTC by john comment:3

milestone: → 1.6

Changed April 17, 2011 05:34PM UTC by Gilmore Davidson comment:4

resolution: → fixed
status: openclosed

Added check for live mouseenter/mouseleave events if bound to nested elements with the same selector. Fixes #5884.

Changeset: a9b81d759af3a4574a42ca1de93be1247f7953a2