# Trouble With Hovering Captions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-hovering-captions/1805>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 21, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-hovering-captions/1805 "2002-05-21T17:06:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-hovering-captions/1805/1 "2002-05-21T17:06:44Z")

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Haven’t had to come here for a while. Nice to know you’re all still alive…

I’m doing a movie which is going to basically be navigation for a website. I was following Kirupas tutorial about the hovering captions and everything was cool, but when I went to paste the “on (rollover)” action script into the actions panel of one of the symbols, it kept adding “onClipEvent (load) {”.

Then when I would test the movie, I got the follwing error:

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=History Symbol, Frame=20: Line 2: on handlers may not nest within other on handlers  
&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp on (rollOver) {

Needless to say, I can’t get it to work. It was fine when I did the tutorial with Kirupas file, but I can’t get it to work now.

One other thing: After I put the “on (rollover)” script in an get the movie to work right, I still need the symbols to function as links to other pages. Can I just add the “getURL” script after the “on (rollover)” stuff or what?

Sory this is so long, thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-hovering-captions/1805/2 "2002-05-21T18:51:09Z")

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You get that error because you seem to be willing to put the code in a movie clip, not a button. Check it.

Concerning the linking, you’d better do it on (press), or else when you roll over the buttons it will launch a new window…

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