How to delay mouseover event in jQuery

Question

I am trying to delay mousehouver event in the jQuery below

document.observe('mouseover', (function (event) {
    var target = event.findElement('a[rel^=lightbox]') || event.findElement('area[rel^=lightbox]');
    if (target) {
        event.stop();
        this.start(target);
    }
}).bind(this));
},

I tried like this

document.observe('mouseover', (function (event), 2000) {
    var target = event.findElement('a[rel^=lightbox]') || event.findElement('area[rel^=lightbox]');
    if (target) {
        event.stop();
        this.start(target);
    }
}).bind(this));
},

But it didnt work.

Please how do i make this work ?

Thanks

I have also tried this, but hover is not working.

    var hoverTimeout;
       document.observe('mouseenter', (function(event){
        hoverTimeout = setTimeout(function(){
    document.observe('mouseover', (function(event){
        var target = event.findElement('a[rel^=lightbox]') ||                                                             event.findElement('area[rel^=lightbox]');
        if (target) {
            event.stop();
            this.start(target);
        }
    }).bind(this));
},
 }, 2000);

});

Answer 1

You'll want to do this (probably with slight modifications, since I didn't test this code) to override the behavior in the Lightbox event handler, this should be placed right after you load the Lightbox script:

<script src="js/lightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Lightbox.prototype.updateImageList = function() {
    this.updateImageList = Prototype.emptyFunction; 

    var hoverTimeout, delayMilliseconds = 2000;
    document.observe('mouseover', (function(event){
        var target = event.findElement('a[rel^=lightbox]')
            || event.findElement('area[rel^=lightbox]');
        if (target) {
            hoverTimeout = setTimeout(function(){
                event.stop();
                this.start(target);
            }, delayMilliseconds);
            target.one('mouseleave', function(){
                clearTimeout(hoverTimeout);
            });
        }
    }).bind(this));
};
</script>

Answer 2

Check out the hoverIntent plugin, I think it's just what you're looking for :). http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html