# Width of main movieclip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/width-of-main-movieclip/181266
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 7, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/width-of-main-movieclip/181266 "2006-03-07T22:30:35Z")
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### Author: ![veraxoxo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@veraxoxo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/veraxoxo)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/width-of-main-movieclip/181266/1 "2006-03-07T22:30:35Z")

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I have a movie clip named main that holds all the content of my movie.  
If I click on the instance of main, the properties box shows its width to be 603 pixels. However, when I do  
trace(main.\_width) it outputs as 1657!

Any ideas what could be going on?