# Hover Caption

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-caption/179801
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 23, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-caption/179801 "2006-02-23T03:11:10Z")
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### Author: ![julyknive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@julyknive](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/julyknive)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-caption/179801/1 "2006-02-23T03:11:10Z")

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I’m using this hover caption on my site:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/captions.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/captions.htm)

But I would like to have the hover caption appear for only a short amount of time (2 seconds?). Any tips to do this? Cause I don’t know where to start/search (:

Here’s the main part of the code:

```auto
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    if (_root.x==1) {
        this._alpha = 50;
    } else {
        this._alpha = 0;
    }
}

```

Thanks!