# Button in a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-movieclip/87993>\
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**Created:** [April 25, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-movieclip/87993 "2005-04-25T22:12:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![bruff3k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@bruff3k](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bruff3k)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-movieclip/87993/1 "2005-04-25T22:12:33Z")

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I have created a navigational menu which animates down, there are four buttons. All the buttons animate down in a movieclip called “navi” and this MC is stored in another MC called “main” which is on “Scene 1”. I have been having a problem with navigating to another scene, in this case called “about”, when I click on a button. My first attempt was putting this action script directly on the button…

[color=blue]on (release) {  
gotoAndPlay(“about”,1);  
}  
[/color]  
… but was unsuccessful! I have a hunch it is something to do with the buttons being in the movieclips but I am not sure! Possibly use [color=blue]\_root[/color] or [color=blue]\_parent [/color][color=black]action script?? I don’t know any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. [/color]

Bruff.