How to know when a pop-down menu needs to be closed

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Published on 2010-03-30T09:56:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 10:13 UTC
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I'm experimenting with pop-down menus (inside floating DIVs). Making them appear with onmouseover attributes is no problem, but I'm not sure how I can make the menu close properly.

I figured the best way to know when to close the menu is wait until the mouse is no longer hovering over the HTML element that called the menu or the menu itself, then wait one second, and then close the menu.

Is my idea something that can be implemented, perhaps with some jQuery? Or is there a better and more efficient alternative?

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