# Alpha fading textfields **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [December 24, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080 "2002-12-24T00:24:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nikc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8491ac/32.png) [@nikc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nikc)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/1 "2002-12-24T00:24:01Z")
I for one get the picture that textfields can be alpha-faded from this article… [http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/textfield\_var\_name.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/textfield_var_name.htm) …but have not managed to do so. Am I doing something wrong or did I just get the wrong picture… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/2 "2002-12-24T00:54:50Z")
you can but it has to be a symbol. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/3 "2002-12-24T01:09:03Z")
But doesn’t that cause the contents to be not-dynamic? If not could someone post an example .fla or link to one, plz 🙂 So far I have only been able to make it work with static text. Here’s what I’ve managed to scrape together. Not working like I want to… :\ [example](http://nikke.letm.com/~nikke/flash/fadetext.fla) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/4 "2002-12-24T02:42:37Z")
Hey Everyone Im new to the forum, you could try to just but a fading mc(a white box that fades from 0-100 alpha) over the text box it will look just as the text feilds have alpha faded in… If that made no sense just ignore what I said. =) Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/5 "2002-12-24T02:45:25Z")
Here is an fla to understand what Im saying… I added it to the attatchment thing I dont know if that will work… hook me up on AIM if it doesnt - twentyinchbikes Later. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/6 "2002-12-24T03:11:47Z")
Yup. That’s the way I’ve been doing it so far. But I saw this done somewhere, **without** the box. And anyway, using the box limits a bit, because the box will show up unless the background is the same color as the box, which eliminates multicolored backgrounds… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fading-textfields/10080/7 "2002-12-24T04:17:08Z")
Ha-ha! I was victorious once again… 😃 I found the answer on another forum. The trick is to embed the font, **then** it will fade out, and in, and out, and in… :)) See attachment