# Button inside a movie clip
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-a-movie-clip/45500
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 15, 2004, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-a-movie-clip/45500 "2004-03-15T09:34:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Phantom\_Lord](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Phantom_Lord)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-a-movie-clip/45500/1 "2004-03-15T09:34:27Z")
i’ve put a button inside a movie clip, but when i play the preview the button seems unclickable… why?
thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-a-movie-clip/45500/2 "2004-03-15T12:55:41Z")
You probably have a mouse event for both button and movieclip.
That will kill the button action.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-a-movie-clip/45500/3 "2004-03-15T16:15:04Z")
yes i do… but i need it!!!
this is what i want to do: a movie clip that appears on rollover (on another movieclip) and disappears on rollout, with a button inside of it. i do it in order to make a kind of drop down menu (the button is a link in the drop down)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-inside-a-movie-clip/45500/4 "2004-03-15T16:23:47Z")
You can use hitTest to check if the mouse is over the movieclip instead.