IE has onmouseleave
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536946(VS.85).aspx
which might be more what you want.
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> I have a table in which I want to use the onmouseout event. This would
> be fine, except when moving from the padding to the cells, the event
> is fired as well. Is there any way to avoid this problem? Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks.
Methinks the padding is part of <td>, the cell if you like,
perhaps you mean the text and the non text part?
Try filling the cell with a <div> and using the div's mouse events.
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> First, both the table and cell have padding (it might be set to 0 in
> some cases, but it's still there).
if it is set ot 0, it is not "there".
> But regardless of what is in the
> cells, the onmouseout event will be triggered when the cursor moves
> from the main table area into one of the cells.
That depends on where you set the eventlistener.
> Maybe I am misunderstanding your suggestion.
Not at all, I do not understand the OQ, it seems.
Why not show some example code?