# Scaling a movieclip withoout scaling its contents

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-a-movieclip-withoout-scaling-its-contents/286144
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**Created:** [April 10, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-a-movieclip-withoout-scaling-its-contents/286144 "2009-04-10T18:57:26Z")
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### Author: ![sarabjot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sarabjot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sarabjot)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-a-movieclip-withoout-scaling-its-contents/286144/1 "2009-04-10T18:57:26Z")

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Hi, I am trying to achieve an effect of scaling a movie clip on click…very similar to  
[http://www.sony.com/index.php](http://www.sony.com/index.php). When the user clicks on See, Hear, Play and Shop boxes, the boxes expand.

I have created a box movieclip that has a bar on top. This bar is a movie clip inside the box movieclip. When i try to scale the main box movieclip, the internal bar movie clip scales as well. How to stop this?

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.