# How to animate a symbol by clicking on it

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-symbol-by-clicking-on-it/309742>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 23, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-symbol-by-clicking-on-it/309742 "2010-05-23T23:23:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-animate-a-symbol-by-clicking-on-it/309742/1 "2010-05-23T23:23:07Z")

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I am trying to create a butterfly to fly in front of an image gallery, kinda to be funny. I am new at this, so its probably easy and I just forgot, but I need some help please.

I create the butterfly on the stage, make into a movie clip symbol. Click inside the movie clip…and then what? I want to be able to click on the butterfly that is sitting on a leaf, once it is clicked on it will fly in front of the image gallery (I have already created, and seems to work) for a few seconds and then fly back to the leaf. What action script do I use?