# Button 'over' state activates on mouseover

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-over-state-activates-on-mouseover/280481>\
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**Created:** [January 28, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-over-state-activates-on-mouseover/280481 "2009-01-28T05:11:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jon\_b1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@jon\_b1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jon_b1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-over-state-activates-on-mouseover/280481/1 "2009-01-28T05:11:23Z")

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not sure if I can explain this clearly, here goes.

I’ve got a line of text, set as a button, that triggers an image and some text to show up further down the page when a user hovers over the text. However, when the mouse passes over the text/images at the bottom of the page (that should only come up when the text is in an ‘over’ state), that ‘button’ section all triggers. How do I make it so that only the text initiates the button ‘down’ state?

many thanks in advance!  
Jon