Funky jQuery mouseleave behavior

Answer 1

Thanks eyelidlessness! I actually found another answer to this problem last night that is very similar to what you posted.

.bind("mouseleave", function(e) { // ANSWER HERE!!!
    if (!e.fromElement.length) {
        _state.filterTrigger.data("open", false);
        setTimeout(function() { _toggleFilter(_state.filterTrigger); }, 2000);
    }
});

The e.fromElement object gives the count of OPTION objects in the SELECT. This object is undefined for other HTML tags. I haven't tried your solution but this works for me as well.