How to have a mouseover event fire only if the mouse is hovered over an element for at least 1 second?

Question

I want to display a dialog when a user mouses over a certain image. That part works. Unfortunately if the mouse even just passes over the corner of the image quickly it will

Answer 1

check out the hoverintent http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html it will do exactly what you want.

I usually dont post links to answers but it is easy to use and would be good to read over it and learn it.