# Masking text areas

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-areas/106992
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 11, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-areas/106992 "2004-04-11T02:34:29Z")
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### Author: ![mlkedave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mlkedave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlkedave)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-text-areas/106992/1 "2004-04-11T02:34:29Z")

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AHHH it still doesn’t work. I now can embed regular text (using the text tool) but the text in the TextArea component still doesn’t show up under a mask… I dont know how to embed those fonts or something else is wrong… Any suggestions?