# Damned multiline

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/damned-multiline/277358>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 11, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/damned-multiline/277358 "2008-12-11T04:03:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Mak\_Valley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Mak\_Valley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mak_Valley)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/damned-multiline/277358/1 "2008-12-11T04:03:54Z")

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```auto
this.bg.attachMovie("vidbg_mc", "vidbg_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
		this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", this.getNextHighestDepth());
		// text field
		var whichfile:String = vidfileArr*;
		var whichlabel:String = vidlabelArr*;
		var whichthumb:String = vidthumbArr*;
		var whichdesc:String = viddescArr*;
		
		this.holder.createTextField("label_txt", this.holder.getNextHighestDepth(), 68, 5, 160, 60);
		this.holder.label_txt.multiline = true;
		this.holder.label_txt.text = whichlabel+"
"+whichdesc;
		var myTextFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
		myTextFormat.font = "Arial";
		myTextFormat.size = 11;
		myTextFormat.bold = false;
		myTextFormat.color = 0xFFFFFF;
		this.holder.label_txt.selectable = false;
		this.holder.label_txt.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
		
		//*/
		
		// Preload thumbnail
		this.holder.createEmptyMovieClip("vidthumb_mc", this.holder.getNextHighestDepth());
		mcloader.loadClip("newsite/kaleo/video/thumbs/"+whichthumb, this.holder.vidthumb_mc);
		// button functions
		this.holder.onRelease = function(){
			// load video
			//_root.vids_mc.vidnav_mc.header_txt.text = whichlabel;
			trace(this);
			ns.play("newsite/kaleo/video/flv/"+whichfile);
		}

```

for some messed up reason I can’t get the text boxes to display multiline… this bit of code is from a movie clip prototype function. syntax seems to be alright, anybody know what would cause this not to work?