# Dynamic text box - something's wrong
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-somethings-wrong/5803
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 22, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-somethings-wrong/5803 "2002-09-22T15:17:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@linque](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/linque)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-somethings-wrong/5803/1 "2002-09-22T15:17:12Z")
Hi! I can’t seem to paste text into a dynamic text box (about 100 x 100px) without it expanding lengthwise to accomodate almost all the text I paste. My goal is to use a scrollbar, but the box keeps expanding… the scrollbar works but only scrolls about one line when I test movie, since most of the text is already displayed.
I’ve tried repeatedly. I’ve tried hand typing in text. This is happening when I select dynamic text, input text or any other kind of text!! I’ve set it to multiline, to allow select, to allow html and to put a border on. I’ve included an instance name.
If I resize the box, the text squishes so that is not working either.
??? any suggestions? Is there some setting I may have inadvertantly done to create this problem?
:-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-somethings-wrong/5803/2 "2002-09-22T15:19:38Z")
Make sure you have the properties set to multi line and not single line.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-somethings-wrong/5803/3 "2002-09-22T15:20:15Z")
Oh - you did.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-box-somethings-wrong/5803/4 "2002-09-22T16:27:22Z")
🙂 hey … ya know what it was? there’s some contextual stuff if you right-click the box with the selection tool. I needed to pick “scrollable” there
not one of 3 books mentioned this!
🙂 thanks flex and all for your attention to the matter tho!