# Load Symbol

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-symbol/56019>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 29, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-symbol/56019 "2004-06-29T22:10:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dreamer)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-symbol/56019/1 "2004-06-29T22:10:40Z")

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What is the actionscript code to simply load a internal symbol into a area? the area is called “content” btw.

on (release) {  
loadMovie(“symbol”, “this.\_parent.content”);  
}

something like this BUT it only loads external files. i need to load a symbol from internal.

any clues?

thanks.