# How to flip a movieclip horizontally using AS

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-flip-a-movieclip-horizontally-using-as/221907
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-flip-a-movieclip-horizontally-using-as/221907 "2007-04-09T09:04:38Z")
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### Author: ![iceblueflame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@iceblueflame](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iceblueflame)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-flip-a-movieclip-horizontally-using-as/221907/1 "2007-04-09T09:04:38Z")

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I tried things like changing \_width and \_xscale. nothing works.  
flipping vertically is possible by changing \_rotation. but how do i flip the clip horizontally??  
please please help