# Anchoring frames

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anchoring-frames/223501>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anchoring-frames/223501 "2007-04-23T12:05:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![odine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a5b964/32.png) [@odine](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/odine)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anchoring-frames/223501/1 "2007-04-23T12:05:43Z")

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Hello All.

I am in a bit of a situation. I am trying to get an HTML button to go to a specific frame in the flash SWF timeline. Now thats not hard - just pop in a flashvar, easy right? well…I ran into some problems…it seems that flash only exports anchors and labels on the main timeline. So say i wanted to go to frame 30, where the main timeline stops, but a nested movieclip plays to a certain point. lets say i wanted to go to frame 30, as well as make that nested clips timeline to be at frame 5 lets say.

Basically, i tried converting the labels to anchors (for browser back button) which would have worked great, except flash refuses to export/has no way of telling the label names of nested clips. How can i target a frame on a nested clip using a flashvar from HTML? anyone have any ideas?!

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