# No highlighting on mouse over the Dashboard

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard, dashboard-2
**Created:** [11 September 2024 16:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896 "2024-09-11T16:35:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![WhiteLion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/whitelion/32/12266_2.png) [@WhiteLion](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/WhiteLion)
#### Post date: [11 September 2024 16:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896/1 "2024-09-11T16:35:43Z")

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Mouse is over the Dashboard 2.0 node and its not highlighted as in DB 1

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/9/f/9fd3235274771d81fa67b4b72e524928794a083d.png)

I use the feature of DB 1 very often. I ve flows for switches of one type and when I add a new switch I usually copy the flow, change some names of the buttons, the MAC of the new device and then sort all dashboard nodes of the copy to new group I created for the switch.... To identify where the node belongs to, I use the highlight.

Maybe there are better ways to copy the flow and sort the dashboard nodes to an new group ? or a way to highlight ?

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### Author: ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [11 September 2024 16:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896/2 "2024-09-11T16:51:02Z")

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Try clicking the **focus** button that appears when you hover the item.

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### Author: ![WhiteLion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/whitelion/32/12266_2.png) [@WhiteLion](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/WhiteLion)
#### Post date: [11 September 2024 17:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896/3 "2024-09-11T17:27:16Z")

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I know that option but its jumping between the flows and that is much slower process than the highlighting.

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### Author: ![joepavitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/joepavitt/32/59722_2.png) [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)
#### Post date: [14 September 2024 11:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896/4 "2024-09-14T11:38:37Z")

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Please do open a [feature request](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues).

I didn't realise that Dashboard 1.0 did that, happy to add that in. The "Focus" button is nice though as it will also re-position the view if the node is not within the scope of the viewer.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [14 October 2024 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/no-highlighting-on-mouse-over-the-dashboard/90896/5 "2024-10-14T11:39:26Z")

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