# Weird \<mx:Text\> Issue

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-mx-text-issue/272849
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 8, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-mx-text-issue/272849 "2008-10-08T21:02:03Z")
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### Author: ![dewey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dewey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dewey)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-mx-text-issue/272849/1 "2008-10-08T21:02:03Z")

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Hey everyone,

I’m working in Flex and I am getting the strangest error that I cannot figure out.

I have a canvas that has an image and some text (the mx:Text in question) side by side and a label under this text.

For the sake of it we’ll call the id of the text “title”.

When I trace out title.height, it seems to work fine, unless there is only 1 word on the bottom line of text. That is, when I trace it out with 3 lines, I get height = 56, 4 lines with only 1 word on the 4th line it gives me 56 as well, but if I have more than one word on the 4th line I get 70-something, and all is well with the world.

I have tried measuredHeight, explicitHeight, textHeight and all yield the same results (except textHeight but the overall result is the same).

I would greatly appreciate anything anyone could do to help me here,

Thank you,

–d