# Submenu doesn't disappear?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submenu-doesnt-disappear/267596
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 3, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submenu-doesnt-disappear/267596 "2008-08-03T18:25:29Z")
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### Author: ![keitai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@keitai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/keitai)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submenu-doesnt-disappear/267596/1 "2008-08-03T18:25:29Z")

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[my menu](http://www.bldd.nl/flashproblems/website-questions3c.swf)is almost working i have a problem when for instance you navigate like this

page2\>page2c\>page2e\>page2d\>page2b

the submenu disappears at page2b but not at page2d. (submenu suppose to disappear when a menuItem isn’t a menu node)

when navigating back and fort, like \>page2c\>page2e\>page2c\>page2e\>page2c\>page2e etc.

the submenu disappears when you click an even amount of times page2a\>page2b\>page2a\>page2b\>page2a\>page2b etc.

With debugger i notice the followin  
page2\>page2c  
first time it reads

```auto

_level0.websiteContent.subMenu2.item2_mc

```

and the variable pageTitle equals “page2c1”

when clicking page2e it reads

```auto

_level0.websiteContent.subMenu2.item2_mc
     _level0.websiteContent.subMenu2.item2_mc.menuTxt

```

with variable text equals “page 2e 1”

Which i don’t get

This part of my code is relevant i think

```auto

function generateSubMenu (....){
-----
curr_item = curr_menu.attachMovie("menuitem", "item"+i+"_mc", i);
curr_item.menuTxt.text = curr_item.pageTitle; 
curr_item.pageContent = curr_node.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;

...........
}

```

menuitem is a library movieclip with a linkage menuitem and a dyn. textfield with instance name menuTxt.

i have attached the .fla .swf en .xml  
Any suggestions
