mouseover and mouseout events do not behave like mouseenter and mouseleave on markers

According to #1144 Leaflets mouseover and mouseout should behave like mouseenter and mouseleave. However this fiddle shows that this is not the case.

If you move the mouse over the outer ring of the marker the popup shows up but as soon as you enter the inner circle it is closed because mouseout is fired. If you move back to the outer ring the popup shows up again.

[stuharvey]

For v0.7.7 users having a similar issue and arriving here via google or otherwise, I’ll give my $0.02 on a good way to handle this rather than just offsetting the popup: fiddle.

On a related note, I also wanted to find a way to avoid triggering the mouseout event on a marker when adding a new feature on or around it. In my application, I’m displaying GPS data which has an error radius for each GPS fix. I wanted to be able to mouse over a marker for a given data point and show that error, but I ran into the same issue where adding a layer or showing a popup when mousing over a marker would trigger the marker’s mouseout event.

Here’s a fiddle showing the undesired behavior and how to fix it.

[Eschon]

@fminuti Your right it seems that there isn’t really an issue. Now I have the problem that I need to be able to move the mouse over the popup because there are links inside it. But that isn’t really something that leaflet is responsible for so I’ll find some way to work around it in my code.

@yohanboniface feel free to close if you agree that there is no issue in Leaflet.