# Passing events up Hierachies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-events-up-hierachies/269042>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-events-up-hierachies/269042 "2008-08-21T18:22:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Melchior)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-events-up-hierachies/269042/1 "2008-08-21T18:22:11Z")

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Hi, I have only recently switched to as3 about 2 days ago. I have a moderate understanding of the language however, I cant get buttons inside movie clips (or deeper) to invoke events on the main stage.  
For example, Button AB1 is inside a movie clip with instance name instance1. Inside instance1 lie several other buttons, AB2, AB3 , and so on. The problem is that I cannot get the buttons inside instance1 to invoke events on the main stage.  
Namely, when AB1 is clicked I want a separate clip on a different layer of the main stage to gotoAndPlay its contents.

Thank you.