# Plotly onmousedown and onmouseup

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**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-onmousedown-and-onmouseup/4812 "2017-07-06T18:58:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![etienne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/etienne/32/17_2.png) [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-onmousedown-and-onmouseup/4812/4 "2017-07-06T19:57:25Z")

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Ok, in this case, I would recommend something like: [https://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/ZyjZmp](https://codepen.io/etpinard/pen/ZyjZmp)

Adding events to the `document` object isn’t great, but I can’t think of any other solution.

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