# Question About Dymanic Text Masking

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-dymanic-text-masking/97279>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 19, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-dymanic-text-masking/97279 "2003-12-19T21:03:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![HecticMedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@HecticMedia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/HecticMedia)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-dymanic-text-masking/97279/1 "2003-12-19T21:03:52Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to adapt the News Flasher on this site by having it fade from right to left. But when I try and do a mask it won’t work on a moving dynamic text field…any idea why?