outlines on elements

[Phil Jackson]

Hi all, iv'e been trying to get round this for 2 days and still nothing.

What i want to do is to be able to outline elements on a page when hovered over... simple you might think. which it is.

Then with the id of the item outlined when right clicked, and chose an option, other things happen.

The menu side is sorted, and the hover outline is sorted. But iv'e been trying to put them both together but it wont work!

This is the closest iv'e gotten, whcih runs sooooo slow.

$(document).ready(function() {
		function elementHover(){
			$("*").bind("mouseover", function(event) {
				var element = $(event.target);
				if($(element).attr("rel")!="rightClickMenu"){
					$(element).addClass('outline-element');
					if( ($(element).attr("id")!="") && (typeof $(element).attr("id") != "undefined") ){
						getElementObj($(element));
						$("[id!='" + $(element).attr("id") + "']").hover(function(){
							$("#" + $(element).attr("id")).removeClass('outline-element');
						});
					}else{
						return "";
					}
				}else{
					return "";
				}
			});
		}
		elementHover();
    });

the big problem being this
var element = $(event.target);
if i changed it to
var element = $(event.target);
alert($(element).attr("id"));

it would open the dialog box about 10 times spitting all kinds of results. Any help would be much appreciated.