# Why does my externally loaded swf show its off-stage contents?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-my-externally-loaded-swf-show-its-off-stage-contents/66765>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 8, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-my-externally-loaded-swf-show-its-off-stage-contents/66765 "2004-10-08T19:39:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![PCGamre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@PCGamre](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PCGamre)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-does-my-externally-loaded-swf-show-its-off-stage-contents/66765/1 "2004-10-08T19:39:46Z")

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I have succeeded in loading an external swf into a parent target mc, but when it loads, it (the child) shows the stuff that’s going on off the stage. For example, I have clouds rolling by across the stage of the child MC and in the parent, you can see the clouds when they’re off stage. Uggghh. I want it confined to a window which doesn’t show the stuff beyond the stage area. I guess I could just load it behind a rectangle mask of the right dimensions, but that’s cheating… :).

What is the purpose of the stage if it’s gonna show the stuff that’s off of it? Do I fix this by altering the loaded swf or are there ways of fixing this from the parent swf?