# htmlText a:hover event?

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**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htmltext-a-hover-event/249141 "2008-01-15T20:29:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wheels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Wheels](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Wheels)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htmltext-a-hover-event/249141/1 "2008-01-15T20:29:10Z")

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Can’t find any info on this anywhere. Posted over at [actionscript.org](http://actionscript.org) and thought I’d try here to:

I know you can listen for the link event when the user clicks a hyperlink in an html enabled text field but what if I want to have something displayed on mouseOver (a:hover) of the hyperlink? Like a simple tooltip for the link?

I don’t see any info on a “hover” event or anything.

Is my only option to somehow get the bounds of the link in the text field and check for a hitTest or mouseOver or something? Seems like this shouldn’t be this hard…

Any advice is appreciated!