# Help! Dynamic Text Box Masking

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-dynamic-text-box-masking/194021>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 19, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-dynamic-text-box-masking/194021 "2006-07-19T23:44:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZeypheR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ba9def/32.png) [@ZeypheR](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ZeypheR)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-dynamic-text-box-masking/194021/1 "2006-07-19T23:44:12Z")

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Hi all. So i have this weird problem. My main movie loads an external SWF. In this SWF is a MC which has a Dynamic Text box in it. I wanted it to animate in as the SWF is loaded on to the main stage. It starts off screen and slides on to the stage. However when I play the main movie and load the external SWF I can see the text that is supposed to be off screen now on screen because the main stage is larger. So, i tried to add a mask, but when i do that the text box just doesn’t want to show up. I am guessing this is because the text is dynamic in nature.

Is there another method to mask it? Or make it ‘slide out’ from behind something?

Cheers

-Zey