diff --git a/assets/Data/menu/room/roomToolConfig.html b/assets/Data/menu/room/roomToolConfig.html
index 9945be1f..422ce626 100644
--- a/assets/Data/menu/room/roomToolConfig.html
+++ b/assets/Data/menu/room/roomToolConfig.html
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ mainPanel {
     <button onclick="hook('ROOM_TOOL_TOGGLE')">Show Rooms</button>
     <button onclick="hook('ROOM_TOOL_TOGGLE')">Select Furniture Spots</button>
     <button onclick="hook('ROOM_TOOL_TOGGLE')">Show Furniture Spots</button>
-    <button onclick="hook('ROOM_TOOL_TOGGLE')">Detect Room</button>
+    <button onclick="console.log(Object.keys(engine))">Detect Room</button>
 </div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/assets/Scripts/client/clienthooks.ts b/assets/Scripts/client/clienthooks.ts
index 5c5e6a7c..24b618a5 100644
--- a/assets/Scripts/client/clienthooks.ts
+++ b/assets/Scripts/client/clienthooks.ts
@@ -69,15 +69,17 @@ export const clientHooks: Hook[] = [
     {
         signal: "ROOM_TOOL_TOGGLE",
         callback: (engine: Engine) => {
-            engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING('asdf')
-            engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING(JSON.stringify(globalThis))
+            // engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING('asdf')
+            // engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING(JSON.stringify(globalThis))
         }
     },
     {
         signal: "ROOM_TOOL_MENU",
         callback: (engine: Engine) => {
-            engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING('asdf')
-            engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING(JSON.stringify(globalThis))
+            console.log(JSON.stringify({}))
+            console.log(Object.keys(globalThis))
+            // engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING('asdf')
+            // engine.singletons.loggerScripts.WARNING(JSON.stringify(globalThis))
             engine.classes.menuUtils.static.openDialog('Data/menu/room/roomToolConfig.html')
         }
     },
diff --git a/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md b/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md
index fe2530c5..f2bc149c 100644
--- a/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md
+++ b/docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md
@@ -1844,6 +1844,7 @@ Out-of-context typescript compilation that falls back to in-context compilation
 Fix opengl bug
 Fix typescript out-of-context compilation caching
 Script recompilation work
+HTML-defined buttons now directly eval in the js context instead of going through hook manager
 
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/script/ClientScriptUtils.java b/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/script/ClientScriptUtils.java
index 83885ef3..ac66bc8e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/script/ClientScriptUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/script/ClientScriptUtils.java
@@ -20,5 +20,17 @@ public class ClientScriptUtils {
             }
         });
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Evaluates a string
+     * @param evalCode The string to evaluate
+     */
+    public static void eval(String evalCode){
+        Globals.engineState.scriptEngine.getScriptContext().executeSynchronously(() -> {
+            if(Globals.engineState.scriptEngine != null && Globals.engineState.scriptEngine.isInitialized()){
+                Globals.engineState.scriptEngine.getScriptContext().eval(evalCode);
+            }
+        });
+    }
     
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/ui/parsing/HtmlParser.java b/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/ui/parsing/HtmlParser.java
index 1513cb2a..37bbe57b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/ui/parsing/HtmlParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/electrosphere/client/ui/parsing/HtmlParser.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ public class HtmlParser {
                     callback = () -> {};
                 } else {
                     callback = () -> {
-                        ClientScriptUtils.fireSignal("uiButton", onClick);
+                        ClientScriptUtils.eval(onClick);
                     };
                 }
                 rVal = Button.createEmptyButton(callback);
diff --git a/src/main/java/electrosphere/script/ScriptContext.java b/src/main/java/electrosphere/script/ScriptContext.java
index 2e603552..2e66b57b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/electrosphere/script/ScriptContext.java
+++ b/src/main/java/electrosphere/script/ScriptContext.java
@@ -517,4 +517,13 @@ public class ScriptContext {
         fireSignal.execute(sceneInstanceId,signal,args);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Evaluates a string
+     * @param evalString The string
+     */
+    public void eval(String evalString){
+        Source source = Source.create("js",evalString);
+        context.eval(source);
+    }
+
 }