# Making text boxes not just appear **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 1, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-boxes-not-just-appear/8915 "2002-12-01T02:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blah\_de\_blah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@blah\_de\_blah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blah_de_blah)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-boxes-not-just-appear/8915/1 "2002-12-01T02:36:48Z")
i was wondering how you make a text box not just appear on a site…i want it to be small and then increase in size… i know you can put the frames and stuff on the main timeline but i want it on the timeline of the object so things don’t get confusing… so i was wondering how you do that and get it to play…i’ve put it on the timeline of the object but when i click testmovie nothing happens…i’m pretty sure you need some AS in it so what would this be? hopefully you understood what i was saying 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-boxes-not-just-appear/8915/2 "2002-12-01T03:35:52Z")
Well I don’t know the actionscript for it, but I’m sure there is one, but I do know how to do it with tweening and fading. I attached a fla for you to play with. Hope that is what you’re trying to achieve. =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-boxes-not-just-appear/8915/3 "2002-12-01T03:46:12Z")
yea i was trying to do somethin like that eexcept with the tween stuff in the object timeline not the main thing, because it would be confusing…for me atleast… i got it on the object timeline but it won’t seem to play when i clik testmovie… anwayz thx for the fla 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-boxes-not-just-appear/8915/4 "2002-12-01T03:50:14Z")
Its the same method, if you want it to be in a movieclip then just tween the symbol I already made for you inside a movieclip instead of how it is now on the main timeline. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-boxes-not-just-appear/8915/5 "2002-12-01T04:22:52Z")
ah i got it now it was a graphic before thats why…thx electron 🙂