# Question concerning depth

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-concerning-depth/70956
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 19, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-concerning-depth/70956 "2004-11-19T04:24:01Z")
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### Author: ![Tyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tyler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tyler)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-concerning-depth/70956/1 "2004-11-19T04:24:01Z")

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I was reading a tutorial that explained how to create dynamicly 4 buttons (well actually its more movieClips that acts like buttons) and the depth of the movieClips created was 100 and 101 etc… A few lines down i saw these lines of code:

\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“imageHolder1”, 200);  
\_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“imageHolder2”, 201);

Why dont they use level 3 or 4 why is it such big numbers? am i missing something or is it just a way to be sure not to use the same levels 2 times?

Thanks.