# Scaling the parent swf but not the child?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-the-parent-swf-but-not-the-child/273545>\
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**Created:** [October 16, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-the-parent-swf-but-not-the-child/273545 "2008-10-16T18:13:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scaling-the-parent-swf-but-not-the-child/273545/1 "2008-10-16T18:13:22Z")

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i have an swf which has an empty MC “holder” in it where I load external SWF’s into

the parent swf is set to scale so that it will always be 100% of the browsers size, but I don’t wanna scale the child SWF (cause i contains text).

when I use the Stage.scaleMode = ‘noScale’; on the child swf, it sets ‘noScale’ to the parent but I only want it to affect the child swf. (sorry i know its kinda hard to explain)  
any ideas?