# Masking actionscript MC with actionscript...\[howto\]

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**Created:** [February 18, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-actionscript-mc-with-actionscript-howto/13799 "2003-02-18T11:26:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-actionscript-mc-with-actionscript-howto/13799/1 "2003-02-18T11:26:22Z")

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Im currently working on en horz… slider menu, the menu part is easy i got it, but now i need to do something… but i just dont know where to start… i’ll explain:

I have a movieclip that runs with an action so my menu slides left and right on mouse movement… that works perfectly…

but no i want to mask parts of this menu so it lookslike its goin under the part of this menu (see image)…

[http://picserv.beyond-reality.nl/getpicture.php?id=59701](http://picserv.beyond-reality.nl/getpicture.php?id=59701)

That is my goal…

but the thing is, this action script makes the movieclip come over every thing i put in it (masks, layer whatever) it just shows ontop of it… no i had a sugetion from a friend to put my masking \*.gif in a action so it stays on top of the other action (the 1 with the sliding menu)

can anyone tel me ho i use action to say that part 1 always stays ontop…or say that it has to stay ontop of (slider instance)

please helpme 🙂