# Help! mouse trailer doesn't work
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-mouse-trailer-doesnt-work/16776
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-mouse-trailer-doesnt-work/16776 "2003-03-28T05:14:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@m4non](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m4non)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-mouse-trailer-doesnt-work/16776/1 "2003-03-28T05:14:34Z")
Hi guys,
I’ve been working on this java script to create a mouse trailer (text follows mouse pointer).
I still can’t find out, how come the trailer only appears outside the flash movie.
Anybody can help me?
Please find the work here:
[http://www.geocities.com/m4non/WTC.html](http://www.geocities.com/m4non/WTC.html)
Thx a lot,
cheers,
m4non
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-mouse-trailer-doesnt-work/16776/2 "2003-03-29T05:43:19Z")
ok…
1. I know you didn’t ask my opinion, but that usually doesn’t stop me 😉 Mouse Following text gets annoying real fast and is considered very tacky by many many people. Its one of those “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” deals.
2. Now to tell you the problem. Browsers put flash on a higher level actual HTML/Javascript/DHTML content. So when your mouse is over the Flash movie, it doesn’t register the Javascript muose follow, but when your mouse is over the HTML part, it works just fine. I don’t know of a solution around this.