# Linking one class to multiple MovieClips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-one-class-to-multiple-movieclips/245112>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 26, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-one-class-to-multiple-movieclips/245112 "2007-11-26T15:33:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![daveistheword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@daveistheword](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/daveistheword)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-one-class-to-multiple-movieclips/245112/1 "2007-11-26T15:33:45Z")

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Is it possible to link one class to multiple MovieClips? This seems like a pretty basic thing to do, but Flash doesn’t allow it. If there’s no way to actually do this, does anyone have a good workaround?  
What I’m trying to do is create a number of navigation items with different graphics, animations and hit areas, but reusing the same functionality. I tried subclassing the main NavItem class with a bunch of empty subclasses, but that seems ridiculously clumsy. Also, it seems that when I do that, I can no longer access Clips on the timeline from the main superclass.

Any thoughts or links to where I can find a solution?  
Thanks a lot.

Dave