# Text Leading and Selectable Text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-leading-and-selectable-text/293916>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 5, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-leading-and-selectable-text/293916 "2009-08-05T19:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garfty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8baadc/32.png) [@Garfty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Garfty)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-leading-and-selectable-text/293916/1 "2009-08-05T19:59:20Z")

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Hi all!!

I have a dynamic textfield that I am styling using CSS and setting its leading to 2, I am also setting the textfield to be selectable = true. However this is where im wondering if anyone else had seen this before…

If I go to select the text in the broswer, everything seems normal until you reach near the end of the text, and all of a sudden the text jumps up. I think it’s because the textfield is not compensating for the leading and therefore the text is to large for the area.

Has anyone seen this, or know of a work-around?

Many Thanks

Garfty