# Mouse click on template canvas

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mouse-click-on-template-canvas/23017>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 3, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mouse-click-on-template-canvas/23017 "2019-03-03T03:56:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@jrd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jrd)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mouse-click-on-template-canvas/23017/1 "2019-03-03T03:56:34Z")

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Is there any work-around for lack of a mouse click event on the template canvas component?

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**Author:** ![ethomason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ethomason/32/43338_2.png) [@ethomason](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ethomason)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mouse-click-on-template-canvas/23017/2 "2019-03-04T17:42:03Z")

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What are you trying to accomplish? Can you use click events in the templates instead?

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**Author:** ![jrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@jrd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jrd)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mouse-click-on-template-canvas/23017/3 "2019-03-04T21:41:14Z")

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It’s a long story… but I need to be able to “click away” from the templates.  
I have resolved the issue by inserting a dummy template, basically an invisible rectangle, in the canvas. It resizes to fit the whole of the canvas and hosts the click event I need. It works in test, and I will implement it in production later this week

Thanks for your feedback