# Question?: Textfield-background color AS2

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-textfield-background-color-as2/294436>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 13, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-textfield-background-color-as2/294436 "2009-08-13T23:01:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![philipecr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@philipecr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/philipecr)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-textfield-background-color-as2/294436/1 "2009-08-13T23:01:11Z")

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Hi guys! I would like to make a text field background-color snap to text length not the text field itself, do you think it would be possible?

a pictures tells more than a thousand words.

![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/5715/985068f30dda5dab.jpg)