# Combobox selected item disappears

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combobox-selected-item-disappears/254696>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combobox-selected-item-disappears/254696 "2008-03-14T11:16:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![cowtrap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cowtrap](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cowtrap)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combobox-selected-item-disappears/254696/1 "2008-03-14T11:16:30Z")

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When I select an item from the comboBox-list the selected item stays blank(visually) but the comboBox-list remains populated and change-event keeps firing.

This happens when I embed fonts and modifies or removes items from an existing combobox.

Here’s the code that causes the anomoly:  
comboBox.textField.setStyle(“textFormat”, fontFormat);  
comboBox.textField.setStyle(“embedFonts”, true);

Any suggestions?

Thx ahead!