# Button.label transparency

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-label-transparency/176037>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 19, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-label-transparency/176037 "2006-01-19T20:05:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogueg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rogueg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rogueg)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-label-transparency/176037/1 "2006-01-19T20:05:11Z")

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In flash 8 I have a mx.controls.Button that I want to programatically make fade in and out. If I say:  
[INDENT]myButton.\_alpha -= 5;  
[/INDENT] Then the button fades out, but the Button.label in the center doesn’t. Does anyone know if this is even possible, or is there a better way to go about fading a button?

Thanks