# Text field won't stay on top

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**Created:** [April 17, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-field-wont-stay-on-top/286558 "2009-04-17T00:22:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-field-wont-stay-on-top/286558/1 "2009-04-17T00:22:10Z")

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I heard this is a great forum for Flash. I aspire to make flash games. I am learning from a book at the moment “Actionscript 3.0 Game Programming” and I’m going through it and trying to improve the example games in order to understand flash better. I am stuck with a problem and can’t find the answer on the internet.

In a game I load up some pictures and have them slide around. The problem is I want to have a dynamic text over the pictures but it always gets covered up. I tried putting the text field in a new layer and have that layer on top but when the pictures load it covers it up.

I have 3 layers, the background, the code where the buttons and all that are, and the text layer where the field is.