# Animating Dashed Lines

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dashed-lines/86257>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 11, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dashed-lines/86257 "2005-04-11T17:51:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![misterpatrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@misterpatrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/misterpatrick)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dashed-lines/86257/1 "2005-04-11T17:51:10Z")

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Hello all,

here’s a simple question. Is there an easy way to animate a dashed stroke?  
I’ve included an example below. The illustrations are from Freehand. Making amovie clip etc is all clear. With a straight line I could just mask off parts and animated a moving line, but with the curves I want that crawling ants effect. Anyone?

Thanks!

-Patrick

![](http://www.maunmedia.com/lines.gif)