# Mask breaking components!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-breaking-components/235002>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 7, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-breaking-components/235002 "2007-08-07T18:32:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![natronp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/87869e/32.png) [@natronp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/natronp)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-breaking-components/235002/1 "2007-08-07T18:32:57Z")

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i’ve got a text input and a combo box which are in a .swf which gets loaded into a masked mc in another movie.

the mask is breaking the functionality (and font appearance) of both components… what do i do!!!