# Multiple movie clips play over eachother

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**Created:** [January 6, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-movie-clips-play-over-eachother/278821 "2009-01-06T10:51:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![keanonumber10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@keanonumber10](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/keanonumber10)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-movie-clips-play-over-eachother/278821/1 "2009-01-06T10:51:12Z")

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Hi all!

I’m learning flash and need to learn more quickly!

I’ve created 2 movie clips and placed them on the stage, each one with it’s own button and content (text/image) inside it. On a click of one of the buttons, it plays that movie clip contents fine.

However, when I click the 2nd of the buttons, it plays the 2nd movieclip over the 1st one causing a muddle of text and image from both movieclips on the stage.

I presume I need some code which removes the previous movieclip when the next one is clicked to play. I’ve had a look this morning at some solutions and all I could see was stuff on unloading mc’s which I don’t think is right as I didn’t actually externally load them in the 1st place.

Here is the fla, with some nice pictures of moi, lol. [http://www.2shared.com/file/4589660/90c555f8/movie\_clip\_issue.html](http://www.2shared.com/file/4589660/90c555f8/movie_clip_issue.html)

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,

Ian.