# How to play button animation on Down state?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-button-animation-on-down-state/85606>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 6, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-button-animation-on-down-state/85606 "2005-04-06T01:14:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![forcefeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@forcefeed](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/forcefeed)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-button-animation-on-down-state/85606/1 "2005-04-06T01:14:23Z")

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A very quick question, almost not worthy of me asking i spose…

I’ve got a white outline around a button that fades up on mouse over and fade out on mouse down. I’ve done it by creating alpha tween of the outline in 2 separate movie clips and dropping each clip onto the correct frame of the button symbol.

Question is - how do i get the down state movie to play to the end? If i click and hold the fade-out anim plays ok, but if i click quickly (as everybody does) it’ll only play like 1 or 2 frames of the fade out.

Like i said real simple question with answer probably somewhere in my head already, but it’s late and i can’t find it on searches.