# Accessing nested text fields?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-nested-text-fields/282312>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 20, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-nested-text-fields/282312 "2009-02-20T04:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blackroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Blackroot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Blackroot)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-nested-text-fields/282312/1 "2009-02-20T04:42:13Z")

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Hello there; this is probably a really noobish question but I can’t seem to solve it. I have a dynamic text field, which I then converted to an object and instanced. Both the text field and the object have a instance.

I tryed both:

```auto

//startbtn being the object, text1_txt being the text field.
 startbtn.text1_txt.text = "lol";

```

And

```auto

 text1_txt.text = "lol";

```

I found the ladder to be more logical, but neither worked. Anyone have a way to get at these nested text fields?

Thanks,  
-Blackroot.