The pointerenter
event fires when a pointing device is moved into the hit test boundaries of an element or one of its descendants, including as a result of a pointerdown
event from a device that does not support hover (see pointerdown
).
Bubbles | No |
---|---|
Cancelable | No |
Interface | PointerEvent |
Event handler property | onpointerenter |
Examples
Using addEventListener()
:
document.addEventListener('pointerenter', (event) => { console.log('Pointer entered element'); });
Using the onpointerenter
event handler property:
document.onpointerenter = (event) => { console.log('Pointer entered element'); };
Specifications
Specification | Status |
---|---|
Pointer Events | Obsolete |
Browser compatibility
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Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pointerenter event | Chrome Full support 55 | Edge
Full support
12
| Firefox
Full support
59
| IE
Full support
11
| Opera ? | Safari No support No | WebView Android Full support 55 | Chrome Android Full support 55 | Firefox Android
Full support
29
| Opera Android ? | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android Full support 6.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- Uses a non-standard name.
- Uses a non-standard name.
See also
gotpointercapture
lostpointercapture
pointerover
pointerdown
pointermove
pointerup
pointercancel
pointerout
pointerleave
onpointerenter
event handler property- This event on
HTMLElement
targets:pointerenter
event