# Placeholder
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placeholder/61822
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 22, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placeholder/61822 "2004-08-22T06:11:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@edskey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/edskey)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placeholder/61822/1 "2004-08-22T06:11:20Z")
Hi guys, i’m trying to make a placeholder, and load a moviclip into it. I tried making a movie clip called “main”, and load an external movie clip into it, but my external moviclip doesn’t load. Basically what i need is to make a main page, where i’ll load different moviclips using actionscript. Let’s say i have a main page, then i have 3 buttons on it (“about”, “contact”, “links”, or whatever) then by pressing the button “about” it will load a movie clip called “about” into my main page, without open a new window. I know this is really basic, but i’m new in flash. Please help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placeholder/61822/2 "2004-08-22T06:16:03Z")
try this [tutorial](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/loading.htm#Loading%20movies%20into%20target:%20Flash%20MX). I think it might help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placeholder/61822/3 "2004-08-22T06:50:34Z")
Though that other way will also work, this one is very helpful too:[Click here.](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/full_site.htm) 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placeholder/61822/4 "2004-08-22T22:24:37Z")
Thank you guys, i got it!