# Setting hitArea for Listbox Item

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-hitarea-for-listbox-item/213181>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 17, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-hitarea-for-listbox-item/213181 "2007-01-17T15:05:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![schmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@schmichael](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/schmichael)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-hitarea-for-listbox-item/213181/1 "2007-01-17T15:05:06Z")

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Hi there, thanks for checking my message. I am trying to customise a listbox component so that when the user clicks on one of the items a movie clip containing 3 buttons appears.  
My problem is that as I have make the buttons appear whern the item in the listbox is clicked, they are attached to the movie clip and so dont work.  
I think that one way around this would be to define a seperate hitArea for the listbox item so that this does not interfere with the buttons when they appear.  
If anyone has any ideas or can help I would be really grateful.  
Thanks!  
Schm  
🙂