# Dynamic Text Field Resizing

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-field-resizing/149294
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 27, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-field-resizing/149294 "2005-05-27T15:55:39Z")
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### Author: ![goldleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@goldleader](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/goldleader)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-field-resizing/149294/1 "2005-05-27T15:55:39Z")

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Hi all. I’m VERY new to Flash and I can’t figure this out. I have a dynamic text field that I want to make long enough to fit the text I am going to put in it, but when I try to make it wider by setting the width, it stretches the text in the field. I don’t want it to do that. I want to text to stay the same and just be centered in the box, but I want the box to be pretty big so that I can add longer text messages later. Any idea on how to do this?