# Simple movie clip button question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-movie-clip-button-question/202069>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 27, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-movie-clip-button-question/202069 "2006-09-27T14:16:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![miah8000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@miah8000](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/miah8000)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-movie-clip-button-question/202069/1 "2006-09-27T14:16:26Z")

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I am building a simple tabbed interface with 5 tabs, each showing different information. At the top of each tab, I am using a movie clip with an “off” and “on” state, so that when the tab is not selected, the text is grayed out and when it is selected, the text turns black. I have made it so that when the movie clip is clicked it goes to the right tab, using frame labels, but I can’t make it change from “off” to “on”. I know it is probably the most simple thing, but I need help finding the answer to this so I can move on.

Below is the AS i used to make one of the tab buttons work. Like I said, it changes the tab but doesn’t change itself.

```auto

on (release) {
	button1_mc.gotoAndStop("on");
	tabs_mc.gotoAndStop("location1");
}

```