cancel mouse events

Answer 1

The mouseout event fires when you are leaving the parent element and entering child elements. In order to treat the all the child elements as a single block with the parent element, you case use the mouseleave event: in native JS it's for IE only, but there is a cross-browser implementation in jQuery.

Answer 2

You can set up myfunc to only recognize the element the mouse event was set on-

function myfunc(e){
  var who=window.event? event.srcElement || e.target;
  if(who.onmouseout==arguments.callee){
    // whatever
  }
}