# What is wrong with this?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-this/243189>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 4, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-this/243189 "2007-11-04T00:39:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![onecommoncode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/47e85d/32.png) [@onecommoncode](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/onecommoncode)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-this/243189/1 "2007-11-04T00:39:42Z")

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I am being really stupid and I cannot figure out why the width and height trace out zero?

```auto

var container:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
container.width = 100;
container.height = 100;
container.x = 100;

addChild( container );

trace( "contains: " + contains( container ) + 
		"
" + "width: " + container.width + 
		"
" + "height: " + container.height +
		"
" + "x: " + container.x
		);

```