# Allow animation to finish on mouseover

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/allow-animation-to-finish-on-mouseover/216544
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 17, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/allow-animation-to-finish-on-mouseover/216544 "2007-02-17T20:46:50Z")
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### Author: ![noahd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@noahd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/noahd)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/allow-animation-to-finish-on-mouseover/216544/1 "2007-02-17T20:46:50Z")

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Hello:

I’ve created a mouseover effect for a button that has the button quickly fly off the page, and then fly back on. The animation works fine when I put the mouse over the button. But if I remove the mouse from the button hit area during the playing of the animation, the animation stops prematurely and goes back to the Up state. How do I allow the mouseover animation to finish playing regardless of whether or not the user keeps the mouse over the hit area?

Thanks for any help.

Noah