# Dropdown menu HELP

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dropdown-menu-help/163559
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 23, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dropdown-menu-help/163559 "2005-09-23T11:52:59Z")
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### Author: ![derrida](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@derrida](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/derrida)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dropdown-menu-help/163559/1 "2005-09-23T11:52:59Z")

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hi  
i have a drop down menu wich is a movie clip (inside it are the buttons).  
now when i wrote the actionscrip for the buttons while the menu is on a different page, i made it work just fine. if i am on the home page and i press on each button of the drop down menu, i do get the right page i ask for.  
but when i try to write the code to the same drop down menu buttons when i am on the same page (that is, i am on the about page with the history section shown) and i press on the education button, the history page does not go away.  
now, each page is an external movie. and i used this kind of code:  
on (release) {  
//now i tell the other pages on the timeline to disappear//  
\_root.placeholderHistory.\_visible=false;  
//it is \_root since it is a movie dropdown menu,so the button is inside a movie//  
//now i tell the right page to load//  
loadMovie(“education.swf”,“placeholderEducation\_mc”);

i have tried to do everything i know in order to tell the first placeholder to disappear (alpha,clear and so no) but nothing works.

what to do?

sorry that i do not load the movie since i do not know how.