# Disabling everything inside a movie clip from outside

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-everything-inside-a-movie-clip-from-outside/236512>\
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**Created:** [August 21, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-everything-inside-a-movie-clip-from-outside/236512 "2007-08-21T16:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![lolomedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@lolomedia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lolomedia)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disabling-everything-inside-a-movie-clip-from-outside/236512/1 "2007-08-21T16:44:59Z")

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So i have a movieClip that has insde of it 20 mc items.  
I want to disabled this 20 mc items… so by doing that, I’m just going to disabled the movieClip that holds all of the 20 mc items.  
But that didn’t work. example;

I have the following  
menu1\_mc  
menu2\_mc  
menu3\_mc

and I have a movieClip called mother\_mc… inside this movieClip I have menu1, menu2, menu3. when i disabled mother\_mc… the others inside don’t get disabled.

please advice.

so i have this for now…  
ActionScript Code:  
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT]mother\_mc.[COLOR=#0000FF]enabled[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#000000] **false** [/COLOR];  
[/LEFT]  
[/FONT]