# Stopping an animation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-an-animation/208287>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 27, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-an-animation/208287 "2006-11-27T09:55:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeringerColt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@DeringerColt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DeringerColt)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-an-animation/208287/1 "2006-11-27T09:55:57Z")

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Hey all, this is quite a basic question, but here it goes, I have an animation, which contains 12 layers, I want the animation to stop after it has ran through, but I do not know if i should create a seperate layer for the action? If so where does it go? Or if I should put the stop on one of the specific layers.

Also how could I create a playback option?? So the user could click on playback and it would play the animation (like a controlled loop)

Cheers

Craig