javascript :OnMouseout event being called when i move the cursor over an element without going OUT of the element

Question

I have an image in a page and in the "onmouseover" event of that image I will call a javascript function to show a tooltip and in the "onmouseout" of the image, i will call a method to hide the tooltip.Now i found that when i place the cursor on the image,its calling the method to show the tooltip div.and if i move the mouse WITHIN the image,Its calling the onmouseout event(Even if i am not OUT of the image).How can i stop this . I want onmouseout to be called when i the cursor is out of the image ? Any thoughts ? Thanks in advance

Here is how i call it

 <img src="images/customer.png" onmouseout="HideCustomerInfo()" onmouseover="ShowCustomerInfo(485)" />

and in my javascript

 function ShowCustomerInfo(id) {


 var currentCustomer = $("#hdnCustomerId").val();   
 if (currentCustomer != id) { // to stop making an ajax call everytime when the mouse move on the same image

     $.get('../Lib/handlers/userhandler.aspx?mode=custinfo&cid=' + id, function (data) {
         strHtml = data;
     });

     tooltip.show(strHtml);   // method in another jquery pluggin
     $("#hdnCustomerId").val(id);
 }
}

function HideCustomerInfo() {

 tooltip.hide();    // method in another jquery pluggin
 $("#hdnCustomerId").val(0); //setting in a hidden variable in the page

 }

Answer 1

I am assuming you are mousing over your tooltip? and the tooltip has its markup outside the realm of the image?

So by mousing over the tooltip you are technically leaving the image. I have had similar things happen to me.

To get around this, try sticking a div around the image, and putting the mouse even on the div, then as a child element to the div have your tooltip, so even when you are then mousing over the tooltip, you are still inside the div.

That might work.

Answer 2

Are you sure HideCustomerInfo() is called by the onmouseout event handler of the image? Also, what browsers do you get that in? Do you get this behavior in one particular browser?