# All children in display object firing mouse over?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-children-in-display-object-firing-mouse-over/311886>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 19, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-children-in-display-object-firing-mouse-over/311886 "2010-07-19T16:26:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-children-in-display-object-firing-mouse-over/311886/1 "2010-07-19T16:26:45Z")

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I have a custom class extending MovieClip, and in my code I add a few children to this custom class.  
When I add my mouse over event listener, it works, but it fires every time the mouse rolls over any of the children too!  
I only want it to fire once when the display object as a whole is rolled over.

Any ideas?