# Child movieclip triggers ROLL\_OVER in parent

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/child-movieclip-triggers-roll-over-in-parent/311694>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 14, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/child-movieclip-triggers-roll-over-in-parent/311694 "2010-07-14T09:43:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![lagufirtnec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e495f1/32.png) [@lagufirtnec](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lagufirtnec)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/child-movieclip-triggers-roll-over-in-parent/311694/1 "2010-07-14T09:43:39Z")

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![](http://a.imageshack.us/img710/3853/issuei.jpg)

This image shows the problem, the 3 is a PNG image with a nice drop shadow that expands quite far from the white square. It is a movieclip which was added by the square movieclip.

This obviously changes the size of the movieclip so the ROLL\_OVER will trigger whenever the mouse is over either of these objects.

My question is, how would I make the movieclip “3” never trigger any sort of mouse event for its parent?

Things that do not work:  
mouseEnabled = false; (why doesn’t this work?? ugh)  
mouseChildren = false;  
enabled = false;

Things I would prefer to not do:  
make a separate invisible square movieclip