# Creating an empty movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-empty-movie-clip/154044>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 6, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-empty-movie-clip/154044 "2005-07-06T16:21:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![robvr6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@robvr6](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/robvr6)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-empty-movie-clip/154044/1 "2005-07-06T16:21:15Z")

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Hi all,

just a quick question, can you specify the size of an empty movieclip to be created below is the code I am using - do I need to specify the size i want in here?

createEmptyMovieClip(“content”,500);  
content.\_x=5;  
content.\_y=12;

thanks  
Rob