Could you try binding the same function their mouseover/out events (or jQuery's hover event)
Then inside that function, look at the event.target and event.relatedTarget to work out whether the mouse if simply moving between the two elements or actually entering/leaving them. George On Jul 29, 6:16 am, mcraig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I want to do now is tie the onmouseout event > to BOTH those dom elements so that if the mouse cursor stays inside > either of them, the navigation panel stays open, but when the mouse > leaves either of them, it closes automatically.