# Hiding the "nan" string?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hiding-the-nan-string/173282>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 22, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hiding-the-nan-string/173282 "2005-12-22T21:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![SAVAGER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@SAVAGER](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SAVAGER)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hiding-the-nan-string/173282/1 "2005-12-22T21:12:22Z")

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I’m working on a gallery where I’m numbering the thumbnails with

this.number.text = this.id+1;

It works great and numbers them perfectly but on the initial movie clip for the thumbs there “nan” pops up in the text feild. Is there a way to hide this???

Thanks in advance!!