# Caption displayed in a specific area
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/caption-displayed-in-a-specific-area/28821
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 19, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/caption-displayed-in-a-specific-area/28821 "2003-08-19T00:55:24Z")
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### Author:  [@trevorsaint](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/trevorsaint)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/caption-displayed-in-a-specific-area/28821/1 "2003-08-19T00:55:24Z")
Hi all.
What I am after is when rollover button for a caption to be displayed in a particular location that has been prepared, rather like the caption tutorial, except this will be revealing more than a word but rather a sentence. I already have an effect for the rollovers and would like to know a good way of doing this. I have four buttons and require a caption for each on rollover,
anyone have ideas??
T
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/caption-displayed-in-a-specific-area/28821/2 "2003-08-19T01:29:34Z")
Make the sentence and put it where you want - turn it into a movieClip. Give the sentences instance names like sentence1 and sentence2, etc. Then put these actions on the sentence movieClip: (eg - sentence1)
```auto
onClipEvent(load){
this._visible=false;
}
```
Then add this to the button actions:
```auto
on(rollOver){
_root.sentence1._visible=true;
}
on(rollOut){
_root.sentence1._visible=false;
}
```
That’ll do it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/caption-displayed-in-a-specific-area/28821/3 "2003-08-19T01:41:40Z")
Two ways:
1. Create moviclips of your captions, put them on the stage and give them instance names (captionMC1, captionMC2 etc.)
Declare their visibility false on the first frame:
[AS]captionMC1.\_visible = false;
captionMC2.\_visible = false;[/AS]
Then type this action for the button:
[AS]on (rollOver) {
\_root.captionMC1.\_visible = true;
}
on (rollOut) {
\_root.captionMC1.\_visible = false;
}[/AS]
2. You can use a dynamic text box and do it all with actionscript. Create a dynamic text box big enough for your caption, then give it a variable name like “caption”.
On the button type:
[AS]on (rollOver) {
caption = “Your caption here”;
}
on (rollOver) {
caption = " ";
}[/AS]
Method 2 would be easier for more buttons, but you can play around with the appearance of movieclips more than dynamic texboxes.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/caption-displayed-in-a-specific-area/28821/4 "2003-08-19T02:27:19Z")
Thanks for your responses, I will try them out asap
Trev