# Hover captions - time out?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 3, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685 "2003-02-03T15:50:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Heathers67](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Heathers67)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685/1 "2003-02-03T15:50:36Z")
HI…I sucessfully used the Hover Caption tutorial to make captions for my Flash site.
My question is…how can I make it so the captions only appear for a certain amount of time, like 4 seconds?
Thanks.
Heather:flower:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685/2 "2003-02-03T16:43:57Z")
ok … surely this is not the best way but it works 😉 😛
hope it helps =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685/3 "2003-02-03T16:56:47Z")
Thankls! It worked like a dream! I really appreciate it.:beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685/4 "2003-02-03T16:58:52Z")
no problem 🙂 glad i could help :beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685/5 "2003-02-04T07:06:41Z")
And if you want them to fade away rather than just _pop_ they’re gone…
😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-time-out/12685/6 "2003-02-04T13:46:45Z")
I like the fade out too. It’s nice to have choices. Thanks for the help.:beam: