# Mask Text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-text/185366>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-text/185366 "2006-04-12T20:11:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![no\_rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@no\_rain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/no_rain)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-text/185366/1 "2006-04-12T20:11:09Z")

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Pretty simple but it won`t work. What I want is to have text links and on the rollover have it a complex movie clip where they change color by slliding over like the ones on [PitchforkMedia](http://pitchforkmedia.com/) (look top right). I was thinking I would juist have the text as a mask but for some reason when I rollover it turns the color I want and then returns to the first frame.  
Any ideas on how to do it differently?

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**Author:** ![zao](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/zao/32/141_2.png) [@zao](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zao)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mask-text/185366/2 "2006-04-12T21:54:41Z")

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It is indeed a very simple effect. The one that you must remember when masking text, is that it has to be dynamic, and you have to embed the font.