# Showing and Hiding text question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/showing-and-hiding-text-question/198607
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 26, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/showing-and-hiding-text-question/198607 "2006-08-26T16:38:56Z")
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### Author: ![Pixelmech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@Pixelmech](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pixelmech)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/showing-and-hiding-text-question/198607/1 "2006-08-26T16:38:56Z")

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I have a page where the user would click on a square and some text would show up. There are say 8 squares, and each square triggers its own text block. When the scene loads the text block section is blank until you pick a square.

I assume I would set up a button for each square, and when it is clicked show the matching text block. But I’m not sure quite how to go about this. Would I have all 8 text blocks on their own layers, set to alpha of 0? Then when the square is picked change the alpha to 100? Or is there a better way?

Edit: I figured it out to a point. I made the text box into a symbol and made the button, and set up this ActionScript:

```auto
 
blogTextBox_btn.onRelease = function () {
     blogTextBox._alpha = 100; // set chosen text box to visible
         localRegionalTextBox._alpha = 0; // hide other text boxes
}

```

This does work to show/hide the text boxes I’ve set. However, I’d really like them to fade in, not just “pop” in. Instead of setting the \_alpha to 100, how can I fade it from 0-100?

Also, it seems like I have to set my text box symbols as movie clips to be able to set an instance name…is that right? You can’t give a graphic symbol an instance name?

Thanks