hover then click children lost target

[wsl874]

Reproduction example

https://codesandbox.io/p/devbox/react-jest-test-4yx2wr?file=/src/App.js

Prerequisites

1. An element contains a child element, and the child element is only displayed when mouse hover
2. test hover the element, then click child element

Expected behavior

child element displayed and click event is triggered

Actual behavior

child element hidden, and click event is not triggered

User-event version

14.5.2

Environment

Testing Library framework: @testing-library/react@14.1.2

JS framework: react@18.0.2

Test environment:

DOM implementation:

Additional context

I debugged the code and found that the pointer event compared prevTarget and currTarget. When they are not equal, the mouseLeave event will be triggered, which will cause the child elements to be hidden and the target to be lost in subsequent events.
Maybe we can determine whether to trigger the mouseLeave event based on the node level, which will be closer to the browser's implementation.

[tobiaseisenschenk]

I can confirm this issue. Regular clicks work, but combined with a hover action it does not. My setup is exactly that of the example above.

Environment

"@testing-library/react": "14.0.0"
"@testing-library/user-event": "^14.5.2"
"react": "18.2.0"
"react-dom": "18.2.0"

Workaround:

In case someone else is also blocked from writing their test - using testing-libraries fireEvent worked for me.

await user.hover(section)
// await user.click(btn)
fireEvent.click(btn)