Element: pointerleave event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2020⁩.

The pointerleave event is fired when a pointing device is moved out of the hit test boundaries of an element. For pen devices, this event is fired when the stylus leaves the hover range detectable by the digitizer. Otherwise, pointerleave works the same as mouseleave, and are dispatched at the same time. They are also dispatched at the same time as mouseout and pointerout events, if appropriate.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("pointerleave", (event) => { })

onpointerleave = (event) => { }

Event type

A PointerEvent. Inherits from Event.

Event properties

This interface inherits properties from MouseEvent and Event.

PointerEvent.altitudeAngle Read only Experimental: Represents the angle between a transducer (a pointer or stylus) axis and the X-Y plane of a device screen.
PointerEvent.azimuthAngle Read only Experimental: Represents the angle between the Y-Z plane and the plane containing both the transducer (a pointer or stylus) axis and the Y axis.
PointerEvent.persistentDeviceId Read only Experimental: A unique identifier for the pointing device generating the PointerEvent.
PointerEvent.pointerId Read only: A unique identifier for the pointer causing the event.
PointerEvent.width Read only: The width (magnitude on the X axis), in CSS pixels, of the contact geometry of the pointer.
PointerEvent.height Read only: The height (magnitude on the Y axis), in CSS pixels, of the contact geometry of the pointer.
PointerEvent.pressure Read only: The normalized pressure of the pointer input in the range 0 to 1, where 0 and 1 represent the minimum and maximum pressure the hardware is capable of detecting, respectively.
PointerEvent.tangentialPressure Read only: The normalized tangential pressure of the pointer input (also known as barrel pressure or cylinder stress) in the range -1 to 1, where 0 is the neutral position of the control.
PointerEvent.tiltX Read only: The plane angle (in degrees, in the range of -90 to 90) between the Y–Z plane and the plane containing both the pointer (e.g., pen stylus) axis and the Y axis.
PointerEvent.tiltY Read only: The plane angle (in degrees, in the range of -90 to 90) between the X–Z plane and the plane containing both the pointer (e.g., pen stylus) axis and the X axis.
PointerEvent.twist Read only: The clockwise rotation of the pointer (e.g., pen stylus) around its major axis in degrees, with a value in the range 0 to 359.
PointerEvent.pointerType Read only: Indicates the device type that caused the event (mouse, pen, touch, etc.).
PointerEvent.isPrimary Read only: Indicates if the pointer represents the primary pointer of this pointer type.

Examples

Using addEventListener():

const para = document.querySelector("p");

para.addEventListener("pointerleave", (event) => {
  console.log("Pointer left element");
});

Using the onpointerleave event handler property:

const para = document.querySelector("p");

para.onpointerleave = (event) => {
  console.log("Pointer left element");
};

Specifications

Specification
Pointer Events # the-pointerleave-event
Pointer Events # dom-globaleventhandlers-onpointerleave

Browser compatibility

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