# Tooltip for text field

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tooltip-for-text-field/72904>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 10, 2004, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tooltip-for-text-field/72904 "2004-12-10T10:27:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sfomra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sfomra](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sfomra)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tooltip-for-text-field/72904/1 "2004-12-10T10:27:00Z")

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hi  
i hope someone helps me out with this my last two posts wnet unanswered…pleasee reply to this post even if u think its not possible tell me it wont be possible…

now coming to the issue…i have a movie clip which loads partial text from a text file into a text field which i create using dymamically using createTextField function now when i have a mouse rool over this text field i want it to display the full complete text either as a tooltip or by changing the content of the text field on my roll over…i have tried but have found no on mouse rollover function avaible for the text field…is thare a way by which i can do the above or…do i have to create a new movie clip and then create the text fiel in the movie clip and give the movi clip a mouse roll over event…

Please reply…

Sfomra