# Movieclip menu problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-menu-problem/110466>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 16, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-menu-problem/110466 "2004-05-16T18:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inflicted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/82dd89/32.png) [@Inflicted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Inflicted)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-menu-problem/110466/1 "2004-05-16T18:25:47Z")

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My menu(code is by scotty)has 3 movieclip buttons, with text.  
I broke apart the text to change the color onMouseOver.

Problem is the button only works when the mouse  
is pointed over the actual text, so it doesn’t work properly,  
because the text is obviously very small.  
I can’t put a “field” behind it, because it will become part  
of the MC, and thus will change color.

Here’s the example: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/inflicted/button.html](http://home.wanadoo.nl/inflicted/button.html)

How could I work around this problem? Any suggestions?

thanks!

file is here: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/inflicted/button.fla.zip](http://home.wanadoo.nl/inflicted/button.fla.zip)