# Accesing textbox properties inside MoveClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accesing-textbox-properties-inside-moveclip/228077>\
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**Created:** [June 5, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accesing-textbox-properties-inside-moveclip/228077 "2007-06-05T07:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![manojvekaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@manojvekaria](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/manojvekaria)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accesing-textbox-properties-inside-moveclip/228077/1 "2007-06-05T07:26:13Z")

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I get this problem very often it says, that i need to include the clip on on movieclip event, i don understand why.

i have a movieclip called question, and a textbox called boxText. i am assiging them the correct instance names.

the code is

```auto
this.question.boxText.text = "This is a sample text";

```

and it gives me a stupid error.

Could anyone help me here