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Length of the mouseover-event?

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Jul 30.2003

hi ppl!
I just have a simple question:
How do I get out how long the mouseover-event is fired by an specific element? Let’s say for example I have a link or whatever and after 500miliseconds – the user being over it – a function is called.
I have no idea how to do that.
thx in advance
Chrisi

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@GollumJul 30.2003 — A common way is to call window.setTimeout in the mouseover event (saving the timeout id) to schedule a function call. If the onmouseout event happens before that, use the timeout to call clearTimeout
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@CharlesJul 30.2003 — [font=monospace]<img src="http://forums.webdeveloper.com/avatar.php?userid=6428&dateline=1052734582" alt="[Gollum]" onmouseover="this.wait = setTimeout('alert('What are you looking at?')', 500)" onmouseout="clearTimeout(this.wait)">[/font]
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