# Acessing the stage

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/acessing-the-stage/234107
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 30, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/acessing-the-stage/234107 "2007-07-30T16:23:14Z")
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### Author: ![obsolete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ba8739/32.png) [@obsolete](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/obsolete)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/acessing-the-stage/234107/1 "2007-07-30T16:23:14Z")

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I need to know the elements on the stage. I’m creating textfields and don’t know how to access them.  
in as 1 and 2 all I needed to do would be a

for (var a in \_root){  
do something  
}

what should I do to do something like this???

Thank you in advance!

jm