# How do I animate button on mouseover

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**Created:** [May 12, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-animate-button-on-mouseover/147673 "2005-05-12T18:23:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![canisapien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@canisapien](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/canisapien)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-animate-button-on-mouseover/147673/1 "2005-05-12T18:23:44Z")

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Hi all,

Newcomer to the forum (but a big user of the tutorials for a while now), and self taught in flash 5, meaning I know enough to build a site in flash, but there are random gaps in my knowledge…

What I’m trying to do is this: I’m building a site where the main page is an illustrated office area, and I’m trying to figure out how to create buttons that when you mouse over them, they play a brief animation (some will animate the actual object moused over, and some will play a brief animation within the illsutration) - as an example… when a monitor is moused over, it will “power up” and play a little intro on the screen, or when the phone is moused over, it will ring and the receiver will lift off the base and shiver, and a head will poke into the office door.

It seems I can either create an animation (which has no mouseover option) or a button, which has limitations… is there a way to script it so that a button will still direct to the next scene on release while playing a brief animation when moused over?

I’m having some problems going about how exactly to lay this out - ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!