# Masked element still affects the height?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masked-element-still-affects-the-height/84235>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 25, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masked-element-still-affects-the-height/84235 "2005-03-25T16:59:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Appa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Appa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Appa)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masked-element-still-affects-the-height/84235/1 "2005-03-25T16:59:24Z")

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Hi all,  
im trying to make this:

i have a movieclip, and inside it, there is a movieclip what have been masked.  
The thing i just found out (by the hard way) that even the masked elements do affect to the movieclup heigth where the elements are.

and i even found out that the mask itself dows grows the \_height value of the parent movieclip.

Is there a any way to go around this?  
i would like to make it so that only the elements what are visible affect the \_heigth value.

thanks