# Track mouseOver with a Listener?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/track-mouseover-with-a-listener/177517>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 2, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/track-mouseover-with-a-listener/177517 "2006-02-02T16:48:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![takashiuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@takashiuan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/takashiuan)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/track-mouseover-with-a-listener/177517/1 "2006-02-02T16:48:10Z")

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how would this be done correctly:

i have some rectangles (about 200) on screen.  
now i would like to track for mouseOver on each…but I would like to do this without an empty button, just by adding a listener to the rectangle.

how can this be done?

thanks for help:-)