# \[Flash 8\] Text not showing with mask...?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-text-not-showing-with-mask/220626
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 27, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-text-not-showing-with-mask/220626 "2007-03-27T20:25:01Z")
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### Author: ![jensou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jensou](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jensou)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-text-not-showing-with-mask/220626/1 "2007-03-27T20:25:01Z")

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I’m working on making a news scrollpane thingamagig. I have a movieclip called “entry” with textfileds (basically it’s just a header bar and a bottom border bar with two textfields). These are dynamically attached based on the number of xml nodes into a holder clip and I have that holder clip masked and for some reason the entry movieclips will show, but the actual text doesn’t. when I get rid of the mask then the text shows.

any explanation as to why it does this and what I might do to fix it?

thanks. 🙂