# How do you track just the mouseY movement?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-track-just-the-mousey-movement/227392>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 29, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-track-just-the-mousey-movement/227392 "2007-05-29T21:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![deltajam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@deltajam](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/deltajam)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-track-just-the-mousey-movement/227392/1 "2007-05-29T21:14:51Z")

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Trying to build a scroller that functions when you mouse over a container and scrolls only when the mouseY position changes. Right now, all I know of is the “mouseMove” event which tracks both the mouseX and mouseY. Also … any links or tutorials on this sort of script would be helpful. thanks!