# Covering buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/covering-buttons/227412>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/covering-buttons/227412 "2007-05-30T02:24:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![geoken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@geoken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geoken)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/covering-buttons/227412/1 "2007-05-30T02:24:43Z")

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With AS2 you would be able to put an mc over a button (or a mc with button actions) and the button would still function even though it was covered. This doesn’t seem to work in AS3. Is there any way to do it?