# Anyway to detect the cursor changing to a Hand?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyway-to-detect-the-cursor-changing-to-a-hand/129450>\
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**Created:** [November 23, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyway-to-detect-the-cursor-changing-to-a-hand/129450 "2004-11-23T20:43:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheJackyl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@TheJackyl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheJackyl)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anyway-to-detect-the-cursor-changing-to-a-hand/129450/1 "2004-11-23T20:43:04Z")

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I’ve been tasked with trying to find a way to create the equivilent to a Title Tag in IE (aka: Tool tip, or caption) except have it work on a Dynamic Text Box with a string read into the SWF.

So the trick is to find a way to detect when the cursor rolls over a \<a\> in a dynamic Textfield. Once I have that I can easily generate the caption MovieClip.

This might be impossible, but the fact that I can attach a Stylesheet and use an a:hover and the fact that the cursor flips to the hand when it’s over this hyperlink I’m reading in makes me think there might be a way to detect mouseover on specific words in a dynamic text field.

Anyone have any ideas?  
Just tell me I’m crazy if you want.

Love,  
The Jackyl