# Reverse addchild

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reverse-addchild/315485>\
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**Created:** [October 27, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reverse-addchild/315485 "2010-10-27T12:19:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![colk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@colk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/colk)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reverse-addchild/315485/1 "2010-10-27T12:19:30Z")

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Hi

I have loaded in an image and with addChild i have added it to the movie clip and this works for example:- mc.addChild(loadedContent).

Now if i want to move or scale the loadedContent data that was added to mc after it has been added, what is the best way to do this?

The way I would normally do this would be loadedContent.x = 10 for example but the variable loadedContent only exists within the function. Is there a way to read the data back then add it back to the mc

Thanks  
Colin