# Assigning a movie clip a depth

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-a-movie-clip-a-depth/284210>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 16, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-a-movie-clip-a-depth/284210 "2009-03-16T18:40:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Drew91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@Drew91](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Drew91)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-a-movie-clip-a-depth/284210/1 "2009-03-16T18:40:44Z")

</div>

Right now, I’m in the progress of making a roster for my school. It can be found at [http://www.jefferson.k12.mi.us/Default.aspx?alias=www.jefferson.k12.mi.us/athletics](http://www.jefferson.k12.mi.us/Default.aspx?alias=www.jefferson.k12.mi.us/athletics) at the bottom of the page.

I’m re-arranging how I have the movie set up (I used to have it in multiple .SWF’s, but now I’m making it into one big movie), but I’ve ran into a snag. I don’t know how to assign a movie clip a depth. The reason this is a problem is that if I were to attach a movieclip (Say Movie1), it would overlap another movieclip’s (Movie2) drop shadow.

Movie2 isn’t assigned a depth because it’s loaded along with the first movie, but Movie1 is assigned a depth when it’s loaded on a click.

So the question is, how can I assign a movieclip a depth in actionscript when the movie loads up.