# Referencing Movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movieclips/201279>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movieclips/201279 "2006-09-20T00:34:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![mw2006](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@mw2006](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mw2006)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-movieclips/201279/1 "2006-09-20T00:34:47Z")

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Hi all. Ok, I’m confused, but I’m going to describe my problem as best/clearly as I can. So here goes…

What is the necessary actionscript needed to reference a movieclip inside a movieclip?

For instance, I’ve built a website where there is a movieclip button inside the main movieclip which contains all the seperate pages. I want to be able to tell the movieclip button to play a seperate movieclip within the main movieclip.

yikes, I hope I got my point across. I think its a simple statement like “this.parent.movieclipexample” or something like that, but I’m having difficulties getting the right scripting. I’m at a loss as for what I should search for a tutorial too!

Hope someone can help, I appreciate it!

Thanks!