# Why do childern scale with their parents?

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**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-childern-scale-with-their-parents/270893 "2008-09-15T23:13:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-childern-scale-with-their-parents/270893/1 "2008-09-15T23:13:23Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to implement a liquid GUI.

There is a “\_pictureContainer” as Sprite at level 1 and am loading a picture as “Bitmap” as its child.

There is a onResize function as usual, fired when the stage is resized.

The code looks like that:

```auto
 
var sw:Number = stage.stageWidth;
var sh:Number = stage.stageHeight;
_header.width = _footer.width = _pictureContainer.width = sw;
_pictureContainer.height = sh;
_footer.y = sh - fh;
_pictureContainer.getChildAt(0).height = sh;
_pictureContainer.getChildAt(0).scaleX = _pictureContainer.getChildAt(0).scaleY;

```

The image in the container should resize and fit the height and keep its proportion by the way. But takes automatically the size of the container(parent).

how can I handle resizing seperately?