My animation clears my input fields

I’ve got a flyout menu that I’m opening and retracting using hittest. I’ve got two input fields on the menu. My problem is that when the user mousesout, the menu retracts to frame one and when they mouseover again, the data has been cleared. Is there any way to temporarily store the inputted data in the fields until the page is submitted? Hopefully it’s something simple! Thank you in advance…