# Dynamic Text Masking - Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-masking-help/47992>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 8, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-masking-help/47992 "2004-04-08T21:48:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-masking-help/47992/1 "2004-04-08T21:48:38Z")

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> [@kode](#):
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> Well, there’s no much to explain. 😛
> 
> I converted the shape on the mask layer into a movie clip, and used it to mask the movie clip called _content_ by using the [font=courier new]MovieClip.setMask()[/font] method, which allows you to mask dynamic text fields without embedding the font. 🙂

This was posted a while ago by kode, and I thought it would fix all my problems and end my search related to masking some dynamic text (which didn’t work using the regular mask layer etc…) However, this _still_ didn’t work. I looked up the command in the help files etc, tried everything, but it still didn’t work. I still couldn’t mask dynamic text.

Could someone please explain it to me one last time? Kode maybe?  
Thanks in advance guys.