# Scroll text horizontally

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroll-text-horizontally/162455>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 13, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroll-text-horizontally/162455 "2005-09-13T15:08:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![DigitalMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@DigitalMac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DigitalMac)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scroll-text-horizontally/162455/1 "2005-09-13T15:08:55Z")

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I’m building a MP3 player and am looking for some actionscript than can horizontally scroll a dynamic text field that is longer than 20 characters. I envisioned it working similar to how the iPod scrolls long track names on the display.

Any help would be super.