# Dynamic textbox to auto extend

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-textbox-to-auto-extend/90088
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**Created:** [May 14, 2005, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-textbox-to-auto-extend/90088 "2005-05-14T10:39:18Z")
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### Author: ![xEnOn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/85e7bf/32.png) [@xEnOn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xEnOn)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2005, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-textbox-to-auto-extend/90088/1 "2005-05-14T10:39:18Z")

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i have a dynamic textbox that loads text data from an external xml source. however, i won’t know how long the data in the xml is going to be. it could be a few sentences or a few paragraphs.  
but this dynamic textbox that i have will only stay at the height i have set when working in flash.  
so sometimes when the data from the xml has quite a few paragraphs, some of the text are not shown in the textbox because its height is not long enough.  
is there a way to make the textbox to extend its height itself automatically on runtime?  
thanks :}