Firefox only glitch with link hover and use of onmouseover / onmouseout

Question

Hi guys I'm getting some strange behavior using Firefox with in combination with onMouseOver and onMouseOut - Events.

I got this code i.e:

    <a href='examplelink' onmouseover='showPopup();' onmouseout='hidePopup();'>My example link</a>

This shows a popup onmouseover and hides it onmouseout. Fine in every other browser, except for Firefox. The problem is, when I hover the link on the top of the link, everything seems to work. But when I hover the link on the lower third, the cursor changes all the time from mouse pointer to default cursor and the popup opens and hides and opens and hides and ...

Anyone here has this problem too?

Answer 1

Sounds like your showPopup shows the popup under the pointer, so that of course triggers a mouseout on the link, which hides the popup, so now the pointer is over the link again, triggering a mouseover, etc.