# Senocular's XML Drop-Down Menu - how to use different clips for menu and item?

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**Created:** [September 7, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/senoculars-xml-drop-down-menu-how-to-use-different-clips-for-menu-and-item/161785 "2005-09-07T03:26:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/senoculars-xml-drop-down-menu-how-to-use-different-clips-for-menu-and-item/161785/1 "2005-09-07T03:26:20Z")

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I have been playing with the Senocular’s tute on xml, and was wondering how i would implement one look for the menu items and one for the submenu’s.

I tried doing if statements (if name attribute = name, the use a different clip) but that didnt seem to work.

Any ideas?