# Assigning same action in a multiple buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-same-action-in-a-multiple-buttons/162918>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 17, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-same-action-in-a-multiple-buttons/162918 "2005-09-17T17:45:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![bongbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@bongbox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bongbox)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-same-action-in-a-multiple-buttons/162918/1 "2005-09-17T17:45:57Z")

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numOfPlaylist = 11;  
for (var i = 1; i\<=numOfPlaylist; i++) {  
\_root[“list”+i].onRollOver = function() {  
\_root[“playlist”+i].gotoAndPlay(“over”);  
};  
\_root[“list”+i].onRollOut = function() {  
\_root[“playlist”+i].gotoAndPlay(“out”);  
};  
\_root[“list”+i].onPress = function() {  
\_root.gotoAndStop(i);  
};  
}

i have a buttons name list1, list2, list3 … and movieclips so on and playlist1 , playlist2 … and so on basically what i want to do is assign same action on it the code above is what i did and it doesn’t work … can anyone tell me whats wrong…