# Problems animating alpha on a movieclip containing a dynamic text string

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**Created:** [December 7, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-animating-alpha-on-a-movieclip-containing-a-dynamic-text-string/246204 "2007-12-07T23:30:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mobi\_chan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@mobi\_chan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mobi_chan)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-animating-alpha-on-a-movieclip-containing-a-dynamic-text-string/246204/1 "2007-12-07T23:30:48Z")

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I’ve been trying to get a fade in/ fade out animation working on a movieclip that contains a dynamic text string. The animation is being called by a gotoAndPlay() AS command, but for some reason text will not work. It does work when I try to animate images from bitmaps or shapes, so I’m assuming the AS is written correctly.

Any ideas?