# Code 4 movieClip Button to load a movie clip into a placeholder Movie Clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/code-4-movieclip-button-to-load-a-movie-clip-into-a-placeholder-movie-clip/189782>\
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**Created:** [June 6, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/code-4-movieclip-button-to-load-a-movie-clip-into-a-placeholder-movie-clip/189782 "2006-06-06T06:25:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![fenomnon64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@fenomnon64](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fenomnon64)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/code-4-movieclip-button-to-load-a-movie-clip-into-a-placeholder-movie-clip/189782/1 "2006-06-06T06:25:19Z")

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Yeah that title sounds a little confusing…so i will explain:

Is there a way to tell a “movie clip button” that once it is clicked on to load a “movie clip” into a “movie clip placeholder”. So instead of loading an external swf into the placeholder, it will be a movie clip from within the same library. Putting every single custom clip on the timeline would take a while, so that is why I thought it would be easier like this, and the other movie clips are not that large that I want to load into it so there is no need for external swfs, trying to keep it clean. Here is the code along the lines I am trying to go for.

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this.profile\_mc.onRelease = function() {  
placeholder\_mc.loadMovie(“profileSection\_mc”,“placeholder\_mc”,"\_root.content");  
}

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- "profile\_mc is the button I am trying to activate to load the  
“profileSection\_mc” into the “placeholder\_mc”. but so far no good.

- the movie clips are within the same library, not on the timeline or external library.

- Is this possible?:crazy: