# Event listeners on HTML text?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/event-listeners-on-html-text/257761>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/event-listeners-on-html-text/257761 "2008-04-16T21:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alber\_Kidd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Alber\_Kidd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alber_Kidd)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/event-listeners-on-html-text/257761/1 "2008-04-16T21:12:08Z")

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I have 10 lines of text in my dynamic text box and would like to trigger an event on mouse over.

The event changes text in another box. Is there a way to do this without making 10 buttons and 10 event listeners?