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How do I get the list item cursor is over

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  How do I get the list item cursor is over joe <mt@invalid.com> - 2012-10-11 14:31 +0300
    Re: How do I get the list item cursor is over Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-11 06:48 -0700
    Re: How do I get the list item cursor is over Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2012-10-11 13:20 -0700

#16551 — How do I get the list item cursor is over

I have a list like below:

<ul>
<li>Item 1</li>
<li>Item 2</li>
<li>Item 3</li>
<ul>

Let's say my cursor is over "Item 2".
I'd like to know using javascript that I'm over a particular item. I know about
onmouseover/onmouseleave etc. but is there another event-less way?

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#16555

joe wrote:
> I have a list like below:
>
> <ul>
> <li>Item 1</li>
> <li>Item 2</li>
> <li>Item 3</li>
> <ul>
>
> Let's say my cursor is over "Item 2".
> I'd like to know using javascript that I'm over a particular item. I know about
> onmouseover/onmouseleave etc. but is there another event-less way?

What would that even mean?

"my cursor is over" isn't itself an event, but presumably it was
preceded by an event of the sort "my cursor moved over".  Basically
the interaction of the user with the document is a series of events
that you can listen for.  That's how it works.  If you like, you can
write a layer that abstracts some of that, for instance something that
pays attention to the mouse movement and stores the currently hovered
list item (or undefined) in some known location, e.g. a global
variable  Then other code can simply check that location to find
which, if any, list item is hovered.  But that doesn't mean that
you're not using the events.

  -- Scott

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#16564

is there a way to listen to 'pointer movement' over any part of the page and get whatever is being underneath it? yes, though I'm not sure you even need that as Scott said, so give us less ambiguity that way we can address the matter in a more specific way :)

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