# Zooming children of container

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zooming-children-of-container/332276>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 1, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zooming-children-of-container/332276 "2014-04-01T11:21:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrpercival](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@mrpercival](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mrpercival)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zooming-children-of-container/332276/1 "2014-04-01T11:21:58Z")

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I have a container (containerA) and inside that is many child MCs.

I am wanting to zoom the children so that the container still takes up the same space on the screen but is zoomed and I then need to pan around to see all the MCs inside the container.

What I have tried is:

```
obj.scaleX=1.2;

```

obj.scaleY=1.2;

but this does not work properly, the whole container zooms and takes up the whole screen (more than it was).

The effect I am trying to acheive is similar to what happens in games like “words with friends” when a tile is laid on the board.

Any help would be appreciated.