Can you make a test page available that demontrates this problem?
And what version of IE has the problem?
On Oct 13, 6:47 am, Pops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not sure how I missed this early in my plugin development, but I
> see it now.
>
> For my new hover plugin, I noticed jQuery was extending the event
> structure with extra mouse information such as:
>
> event.pageY and event.pageX
>
> and that this extended event is passed to my show and hide handlers.
>
> Well, to make a story short, after working out my plugin logic for
> screen and viewport dimensions, compensating for scrolls, etc, testing
> it under IE, I see that the event pass to me show handler does not
> have the extended information.
>
> In other words, in my function callback:
>
> function handleShow(e)
> {
> var mX = e.pageX;
> var mY = e.pageY;
> ...
>
> }
>
> Under IE, the mouse X/Y variables are undefined.
>
> To fix it, I had to copy some "fix" method logic in jQuery that checks
> and sets the event.pageX/Y properties, like so:
>
> function fixEvent(e)
> {
> // Calculate pageX/Y if missing and clientX/Y available
> // note: IE seems to be the only one that needs this because
> // jQuery will add it for others. Don't know why not
> // for IE.
> if ( e.pageX == null && e.clientX != null ) {
> var e = document.documentElement, b = document.body;
> e.pageX = e.clientX + (e && e.scrollLeft || b.scrollLeft || 0);
> e.pageY = e.clientY + (e && e.scrollTop || b.scrollTop || 0);
> }
> return e;
>
> }
>
> function handleShow(e)
> {
> e = fixEvent(e)
> var mX = e.pageX;
> var mY = e.pageY;
> ...
>
> }
>
> Again, I don't know how I missed this early on because I was testing
> IE and FF as I was doing my work. But in the final analysis, this
> is the behavior I am seeing under IE only.
>
> Why would jQuery not set the extended event info with IE?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> HLS
