jquery - select option hover is not working in IE

Question

I wrote a little code to get some tooltips in my multiple select box, The code is working file in FF but not in IE :(

ex:

$('#select > option').mouseover(function(){
  alert($(this).text());
});

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

onmouseover will not fire for option elements in Internet Explorer. In fact, no mouse or keyboard events fire for option elements. See the msdn documentation for the events available:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535877(VS.85).aspx

EDIT - The same is true of Google Chrome (and most likely Safari too).