# Changing y location on button press

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-y-location-on-button-press/88929>\
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**Created:** [May 3, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-y-location-on-button-press/88929 "2005-05-03T17:28:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-y-location-on-button-press/88929/1 "2005-05-03T17:28:28Z")

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I’m trying to get the y position of a movie clip to change upon a button press.

i thought, that by using the code below i could get it to move from y position 400 to y position 168.

Any ideas on where I went wrong?

```auto

changepos = function (display:String) {
	  movieclip._y = 400;
	  this[display]._y = 168;
}

button1.onRelease = function() {
	  changepos("movieclip");
}

```