# Parent MC inherits Child MC's height

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parent-mc-inherits-child-mcs-height/298350>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 16, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parent-mc-inherits-child-mcs-height/298350 "2009-10-16T22:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tommy2toes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@tommy2toes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tommy2toes)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/parent-mc-inherits-child-mcs-height/298350/1 "2009-10-16T22:26:45Z")

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Hey;

I got a problem and I have spend countless hours trying to figure it out…

I have a SWF that I am making Full Screen.

In one of the children I have a drop down tween that tweens from outside of the Full Screen Dimensions… the problem is this Child Clips height effects the height of the whole entire movie; so that it messes up the dimensions of the whole project — ie making everything smaller because it is expanding the height of the parent clip.

I’m not sure how to fix this; I’ve looked through all the movie clip properties and stage properties and can’t find a way to make it so that this child height doesn’t get added to the whole size of the SWF.

Any help would be greatly appreciated…

:hitman2: