# \[FMX\]: Dynamically sizing a movie clip to match character width
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-dynamically-sizing-a-movie-clip-to-match-character-width/18075
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 12, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-dynamically-sizing-a-movie-clip-to-match-character-width/18075 "2003-04-12T23:46:13Z")
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### Author:  [@bleutuna](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bleutuna)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-dynamically-sizing-a-movie-clip-to-match-character-width/18075/1 "2003-04-12T23:46:13Z")
Okay,
For my menu on my page, I want to do things dynamically. For the drop down menu, I want to have a box around the link when moused over, that changes depending on the number of characters that are going to be placed on it.
[http://www.bleutuna.com/interior\_team.jpg](http://www.bleutuna.com/interior_team.jpg)
See how the “tab” around team is smaller than the menu? But GRAPHICS will be larger, and so on.
I’m parsing an XML file to pull in the data for the menu, so I want to handle this portion dynamically as well. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-dynamically-sizing-a-movie-clip-to-match-character-width/18075/2 "2003-04-13T00:42:40Z")
MovieClip.\_width = TextField.textWidth
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-dynamically-sizing-a-movie-clip-to-match-character-width/18075/3 "2003-04-13T01:32:51Z")
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Thanks! Duh, so easy and so sweet A+: