# removeChild help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removechild-help/315218>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 20, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removechild-help/315218 "2010-10-20T12:30:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![seventy9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@seventy9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/seventy9)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removechild-help/315218/1 "2010-10-20T12:30:44Z")

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This looks very simple but I cannot get it to work. :skull:  
I have a movieclip named A.  
Inside A, I have a movieclip named B.  
I just want to remove B from the stage

I tried

```auto
A.removeChild(B);

```

but that didn’t work. What did I do wrong?