# Question about placing buttons inside of a mask

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-placing-buttons-inside-of-a-mask/229566
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 18, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-placing-buttons-inside-of-a-mask/229566 "2007-06-18T17:05:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![mwiley63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mwiley63](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mwiley63)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-placing-buttons-inside-of-a-mask/229566/1 "2007-06-18T17:05:05Z")

</div>

I have a mask set up for a horizontal scroller on some text. The text has some links that I want to be clickable and send the user to another web page, so I tried to create some buttons for click event listeners and to execute a getURL call.

The problem is whenever I place a button in the movie clip that is being masked, it cannot be clicked on, and does not act like a button. The cursor does not change and the onRlease or on(press) are not executed. If I place outside the mask, it works fine, but isn’t scrollable. Anyone have a workaround or any ideas as to what I would be doing wrong?