I\'m attempting to track a dragenter/leave for the entire screen, which is so far working fine in Chrome/Safari, courtesy of the draghover plugin from https://stackoverflow.
I found the answer in a non-selected answer to this SO question asking about dragleave firing on child elements. I have a The solution? Dragout It makes becomes visible over the dragenter on the page. As you found, 'dragover' isn't like mouseover. It triggers dragleave whenever you hover over a child element.
dragover work more like mouseover. Very short.