# Detect Mouse Over?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-mouse-over/271158>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 19, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-mouse-over/271158 "2008-09-19T07:39:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juhanthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@Juhanthus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Juhanthus)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-mouse-over/271158/1 "2008-09-19T07:39:43Z")

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Hey guys, I need a little help here.

I have a flash menu that, once the user rollover it, a drop-down menu will be shown.  
Then I have made a button surrounding the menu - the Rollout button.  
So when the user rollover on the Rollout button, the drop-down menu will close.

But when i upload it online onto an html page, the user somehow managed to “skip” the Rollout Button and the drop-down menu will remain. And this creates quite an annoyance as the menu will block most of the contents unless the user rollover and out of the menu again.

So i was wonder if it possible to create an **if** function that detect if the user’s mouse pointer is rolled over the menu. When it is not, the drop-down menu will close.

Is there a way to do this? I am using Flash 8.