The
IsMouseOver
property
for a user interface element indicates whether the mouse is currently located over the element or any of its children. For example, for a
Button
contained in a
StackPanel
, when the user moves the mouse over the
Button
,
IsMouseOver
will be true for both the
Button
and the
StackPanel
.
The
IsMouseDirectlyOver
, on the other hand, indicates whether the mouse is over a control and not over any of its children.
In the example below, when the mouse is over the button, the
StackPanel’s
IsMouseOver
property is true, but its
IsMouseDirectlyOver
property is false.
Notice that
IsMouseDirectlyOver
is also false for the
Button
. This is because the mouse is actually pointing to some child element within the
Button
element.
If we move the mouse back off the
Button
, but still within the
StackPanel
, its
IsMouseDirectlyOver
property becomes true.
