# Animating a text box

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-a-text-box/318860>\
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**Created:** [February 1, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-a-text-box/318860 "2011-02-01T18:56:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![bsmh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@bsmh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bsmh)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-a-text-box/318860/1 "2011-02-01T18:56:18Z")

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Hi everyone. I have a MovieClip with a Classic Text Dynamic text box in it. I dynamically pull the text from an xml file and embed it in the text box. All works well. The problem is, I can’t use timeline tweens with it. Caurina tweens work perfectly though. I was just wondering if anyone else has had the problem and what did they do to fix it?

Thanks