# Getting a button to stay in down state

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-button-to-stay-in-down-state/214817>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-button-to-stay-in-down-state/214817 "2007-02-01T07:43:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aegis1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Aegis1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Aegis1)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-button-to-stay-in-down-state/214817/1 "2007-02-01T07:43:56Z")

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Hi there, everybody.  
I’m more or less new to Flash but understand the basic concepts involved.

I’ve made a movie with simple buttons, wherein clicking on the button jumps to a certain content keyframe.

I’m swapping images for different states of the button (over and down).

Anyway, what I want to do is have the button stay on the down state after it’s been clicked on and remain inactive (until another button is clicked on), but I don’t know whether this is possible, or if it is, I have no idea about where to start with AS in order to make it possible.

Can anyone help?