# Reference via Relative, need help please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-via-relative-need-help-please/181279>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-via-relative-need-help-please/181279 "2006-03-08T01:20:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Mage](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mage)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reference-via-relative-need-help-please/181279/1 "2006-03-08T01:20:42Z")

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Hmmm I have somethin I want to reference relatively but it won’t work D:

Tree looks like this:  
Scene 1 (Main Timeline) \> scroller\_subnav\_mc (Movieclip) \> content (Movieclip) - Button I’m puttin code on is in the content (MovieClip).

In Scene 1 there is a MC named container2 I’m trying to reference too… I have been doing this…

\_root.container2  
was working fine, but I’m going to load it externally so I would like the path relative.

\_parent.\_parent.container2  
I tried but it doesn’t work D:

But it won’t work?  
I’m doin it this way because its going to be externally loaded and wuld rather have relative paths.