# Custom events not working

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-events-not-working/312769>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 12, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-events-not-working/312769 "2010-08-12T06:55:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![hodel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hodel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hodel)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/custom-events-not-working/312769/1 "2010-08-12T06:55:55Z")

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Can anyone help with this, I’ve been working on it for hours straight and I’m still having major issues.

Sometimes it works great, sliding each new status update down as it should.

Most of the time it seems to have completely random positions set. I am completely at a loss.

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Please help! I think it’s an event issue, specifically with line 127 trying to loop through the children and dispatch a custom event to all children. I’m not sure how to best do that.

I’m also confused as to why it work at times and not at others?

Thank You!