Thepointerout event is fired for several reasons including: pointing device is moved out of thehit test boundaries of an element; firing thepointerup event for a device that does not support hover (seepointerup); after firing thepointercancel event (seepointercancel); when a pen stylus leaves the hover range detectable by the digitizer.

pointerout events have the same problems asmouseout. If the target element has child elements,pointerout andpointerover events fire as the pointer moves over the boundaries of these elements too, not just the target element itself. Usually,pointerenter andpointerleave events' behavior is more sensible, because they are not affected by moving into child elements.

Syntax

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

addEventListener("pointerout", (event) => { })onpointerout = (event) => { }

Event type

APointerEvent. Inherits fromEvent.

Event properties

This interface inherits properties fromMouseEvent andEvent.

PointerEvent.altitudeAngleRead onlyExperimental

Represents the angle between a transducer (a pointer or stylus) axis and the X-Y plane of a device screen.

PointerEvent.azimuthAngleRead onlyExperimental

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.persistentDeviceIdRead onlyExperimental

A unique identifier for the pointing device generating thePointerEvent.

PointerEvent.pointerIdRead only

A unique identifier for the pointer causing the event.

PointerEvent.widthRead only

The width (magnitude on the X axis), in CSS pixels, of the contact geometry of the pointer.

PointerEvent.heightRead only

The height (magnitude on the Y axis), in CSS pixels, of the contact geometry of the pointer.

PointerEvent.pressureRead only

The normalized pressure of the pointer input in the range0 to1, where0 and1 represent the minimum and maximum pressure the hardware is capable of detecting, respectively.

PointerEvent.tangentialPressureRead only

The normalized tangential pressure of the pointer input (also known as barrel pressure orcylinder stress) in the range-1 to1, where0 is the neutral position of the control.

PointerEvent.tiltXRead only

The plane angle (in degrees, in the range of-90 to90) between the Y–Z plane and the plane containing both the pointer (e.g., pen stylus) axis and the Y axis.

PointerEvent.tiltYRead only

The plane angle (in degrees, in the range of-90 to90) between the X–Z plane and the plane containing both the pointer (e.g., pen stylus) axis and the X axis.

PointerEvent.twistRead only

The clockwise rotation of the pointer (e.g., pen stylus) around its major axis in degrees, with a value in the range0 to359.

PointerEvent.pointerTypeRead only

Indicates the device type that caused the event (mouse, pen, touch, etc.).

PointerEvent.isPrimaryRead only

Indicates if the pointer represents the primary pointer of this pointer type.

Examples

UsingaddEventListener():

const para = document.querySelector("p");para.addEventListener("pointerout", (event) => {  console.log("Pointer moved out");});

Using theonpointerout event handler property:

const para = document.querySelector("p");para.onpointerout = (event) => {  console.log("Pointer moved out");};

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Related events
  • gotpointercapture
  • lostpointercapture
  • pointerover
  • pointerenter
  • pointerdown
  • pointermove
  • pointerup
  • pointercancel
  • pointerleave
  • pointerrawupdate
  • mouseout