# tellTarget problem

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-problem/95557
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 27, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-problem/95557 "2003-11-27T01:24:34Z")
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### Author: ![Warpedjose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/94ad74/32.png) [@Warpedjose](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Warpedjose)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/telltarget-problem/95557/1 "2003-11-27T01:24:34Z")

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Hi, this will probably be an easy one, but I couldnt find the answer for the life of me…

I have a webpage I am making in MX, and I have a single problem so far. I have a menu that triggers movies in a heirarchial manner… kinda like Scene1—\>Nav—\>(individual submenu names)… in the sub menus are buttons and I’m trying to get them to play movie clips. I can make the movie clips in each submenu timeline, and use tellTarget to load them. The problem lies when I open them they stay open and tile over each other. is there anyway I can get these separate timelines to close the others when they open as to not have clutter in my data area?

right now the only code I have for the buttons is:

on (release) {  
tellTarget (“archive”) {  
gotoAndPlay(2);  
}  
}

and:

on (release) {  
tellTarget (“recent”) {  
gotoAndPlay(2);  
}  
}

help a newb out?