# Stage heigh is counting masked hidden content

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stage-heigh-is-counting-masked-hidden-content/283484>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 6, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stage-heigh-is-counting-masked-hidden-content/283484 "2009-03-06T18:30:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![artriste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@artriste](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artriste)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stage-heigh-is-counting-masked-hidden-content/283484/1 "2009-03-06T18:30:16Z")

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Hi,

I’m working on a fullscreen website and I’m loading an external SWF that has a scrolling list which is masked by an area that fits its stage.

Problem is that when I load the SWF on the main stage, it should resize to the SWF dimensions… but instead flash calculates the dimensions of the total height scrolling list even though it is masked.

How can I make sure the content behing the mask is not caculated into the stage height?

Thanks