# Visible children with invisible parents

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/visible-children-with-invisible-parents/285169>\
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**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/visible-children-with-invisible-parents/285169 "2009-03-27T20:15:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![trickeyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@trickeyd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/trickeyd)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/visible-children-with-invisible-parents/285169/1 "2009-03-27T20:15:20Z")

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Hi all, I’ve looked but can’t find this anywhere.

This may well just be because it can’t be done but here goes.

Does anyone know of a way that I can make a MoviecClip “visible=false” whilst stopping just one of its children’s, children’s, children…etc from also going invisible.

I am aware that it can be done by setting them all individually but this will take a lot of code (and I like tidy code…and I’m lazy), and I am reluctant to use a loop as it will interrupt the animation that is going on at the time.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

James