# Absolute positioning of nested movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolute-positioning-of-nested-movieclips/329750>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 10, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolute-positioning-of-nested-movieclips/329750 "2012-10-10T20:18:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![hunsnowboarder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ea924/32.png) [@hunsnowboarder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hunsnowboarder)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolute-positioning-of-nested-movieclips/329750/1 "2012-10-10T20:18:13Z")

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Hi there Everyone!

I have a very annoying problem. I would like to make a sort of punching game/app. My problem is that I have three movieclips. The main movieclip is mc\_fist. Inside this movieclip I have two movieclips mc\_left and mc\_right. What I am trying to achieve with this little application is that the main movieclip (with the two nested fist movieclips) follows the mouse on the x axis and static on the y axis. When clicked (depending on the click number, if it is even or odd) the right or the left fist goes to the x and y mouse position. Just like it would hit it. Unfortunately I can’t set the position of the nested movieclips to go to the absolute mouse position, they always move relative to their parent movieclip (mc\_fist) position. Could someone let me know how to solve this issue as it drives me mad!  
Thank you in advance for your help!  
P.S.: Please see the source files attached!