# Why doesn't the text show?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-the-text-show/234874>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 6, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-the-text-show/234874 "2007-08-06T22:11:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![bennymartensson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/bennymartensson/32/1317_2.png) [@bennymartensson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bennymartensson)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-the-text-show/234874/1 "2007-08-06T22:11:04Z")

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Probably an obvious one but why doesn’t the text show in my textField?

```auto

	var thumbInfo:TextField = new TextField;
	thumbInfo.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;
	thumbInfo.embedFonts = true;
	thumbInfo.mouseEnabled = false;
	thumbInfo.alpha = 0;
	thumbInfo.width = 100;
	thumbInfo.height = 20;
	thumbInfo.selectable = false;
	thumbInfo.textColor = 0xFFFFFF;
	thumbInfo.background = true;
	thumbInfo.backgroundColor = 0x000000;
	thumbInfo.text = "text";
	thumbContainer.addChild(thumbInfo);

```