# StartDrag dragging children?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/startdrag-dragging-children/268143
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 10, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/startdrag-dragging-children/268143 "2008-08-10T21:11:23Z")
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### Author: ![Psaldorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Psaldorn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Psaldorn)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/startdrag-dragging-children/268143/1 "2008-08-10T21:11:23Z")

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Hi All,  
I’m trying to drag a movie clip which (if I remember correctly) is easy. Right? Well, the movie is an outline and a background movie that I use as a dynamically coloured background. And it’s dragging that separately, leaving the outline in normal place. I tried using useCapture = true on the event listener but then it seems to ONLY drag the background and not the whole movie.

Any ideas?

I know I can check the MouseEvent.target but that’s pretty messy trying to keep it as reusable as possible (and can’t pass args with event listener and setting a global var also seems messy)

Thanks in advance,  
Martin