# Drag only one button
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 19, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690 "2002-09-19T15:55:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@wa\_ha\_ha\_ha\_ha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wa_ha_ha_ha_ha)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/1 "2002-09-19T15:55:18Z")
Hi!
what is the right action script to drag a particular button without draging others. If I put the action script that I wrote below, it will let me to drag everything, even my background.
Thanks a lot!!!
–action script–
on (press) {
this.startDrag()
}
on (release) {
this.stopDrag()
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/2 "2002-09-19T16:02:08Z")
Try this…
on (press) {
startDrag(this)
}
on (release) {
stopDrag()
}
PS: I am moving this thread to the Actionscript forum as this has nothing to do with HTML or Javascript and you posted it in the HTML/Javascript forum.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/3 "2002-09-19T16:15:45Z")
Thanks a lot! I will post in the right place next time!
Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/4 "2002-09-19T16:21:03Z")
No problem. Glad I could help:)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/5 "2002-09-19T16:55:08Z")
I think you may find that the background is being dragged because the button is sitting on the main timeline (in which case this.startDrag() and startDrag(this) will both reference \_root).
I’d suggest you place the button inside an instance of a movie clip: select the instance of the button, press F8 and choose Movie Clip. Then either this.startDrag() and startDrag(this) will work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/6 "2002-09-19T17:06:33Z")
Ah yes, you are completely right there. For some reason that thought never popped into my head.
Thanks for the correction jsk.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drag-only-one-button/5690/7 "2002-09-19T17:31:13Z")
Absolutely right jsk. When you define an on (something) event, and if you use this, you refer to the clip containing the button (the \_root in this case).
In MX, there’s another way to solve this: declare a dynamic even handler in the timeline. For instance:
```auto
but.onPress=startDrag;
```
pom :asian: