# Animated Text rollover button sucks! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 7, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338 "2004-07-07T20:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@toog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toog)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/1 "2004-07-07T20:37:16Z")
Hi everyone, I posted something similar in the MX2004 forum, but no help yet. Here’s the deal, I’m trying to make text-based rollovers that link to other pages on my site. The problem is, as you can see, they don’t work very well. You have to have your mouse over the a “line” of the text. If your mouse is, for example, in the hollow place of the letter “O” then it doesn’t register. Help! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/2 "2004-07-07T20:39:20Z")
that doesn’t happen to me at all, if I put my mouse anywhere near the button it plays ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/3 "2004-07-07T20:42:16Z")
Seriously? What the? Anyone else? (thanks bombingpixels!) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/4 "2004-07-07T20:54:14Z")
btw, I’m testing in mx, not 2004 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/5 "2004-07-07T21:18:08Z")
yep, i tested it out also, works fine. Im using MX ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/6 "2004-07-07T21:43:41Z")
^ What they said. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/7 "2004-07-07T22:00:32Z")
Why do you have a movieclip in a button, which is in a button, which is in a button, which is in a button??? [size=1]No, I’m not stuttering:lol:[/size] scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/8 "2004-07-07T22:01:27Z")
I was trying to figure that out myself, but I figured I’d let him do what he likes and not critique his work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/9 "2004-07-07T22:04:10Z")
It’s a question, not critiqe;) scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/10 "2004-07-07T22:08:13Z")
fine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/11 "2004-07-07T22:09:52Z")
=) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-text-rollover-button-sucks/115338/12 "2004-07-07T23:43:24Z")
Oh, er, smell a newbie, anyone? Yeah, I don’t really know what I’m doing. However, it is WEIRD that no one else is experience this problem. Oh well, I’ll ignore it, I guess.