# Complex Drop-Down/Layering Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-drop-down-layering-issue/63060>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-drop-down-layering-issue/63060 "2004-09-02T17:06:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sixfortyfive](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/sixfortyfive/32/671_2.png) [@sixfortyfive](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sixfortyfive)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-drop-down-layering-issue/63060/1 "2004-09-02T17:06:16Z")

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Please help me figure out how to fix this. I have 7 main navigation items, some of them have pop-out menus to the right with subnavigation.

[Current Example](http://www.kylehaskins.com/files/flash3/)

I’m trying to get it to behave like this:

- You roll over Nav item 1, and Nav1’s subnavigation shows to the right
- You are able to still click on Nav item 1 or it’s subnavigation and each will bring up content
- When you roll off the area (nav1’s area + subnav1’s area), the submenu goes away

As you can see, I’ve got Nav1’s \*\*rollOver \*\*and \*\*rollOut \*\*working, but now I need to place a button area over “Musical Arts Center” (Nav1) so I can have an \*\*onRelease \*\*for that item. \*\*

If I place a clickable button or Movieclip over Nav1, it messes up the \*rollOver \*and \*rollOut \*due to a layering issue.

\*\*I can’t come up with a solution. Please help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complex-drop-down-layering-issue/63060/2 "2004-09-03T13:57:45Z")

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i can’t fully understand your email, but this is how i make drop down type menus.

make a movie clip with a button inside of it. have the button make the mc go to a certain frame on rollover (the frame where you animate the drop-down, 2ndary menu popup whatever). make the animation for the drop down have a stop-frame. in that stop frame (on another layer) make a button that surrounds your orignal button and the area that has popped-up/dropped down. Then on that button put a rollover action to make the MC go to the next frame where you have the rollover collapse, retract, whatever…

hope that helps!