# Assign property to variable

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**Created:** [January 26, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assign-property-to-variable/280304 "2009-01-26T00:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![activa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@activa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/activa)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assign-property-to-variable/280304/1 "2009-01-26T00:32:00Z")

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How do I assign a property to a variable? For example, say I want to change the alpha of a clip named “theClip”:

I tried:

var theAlpha = theClip.alpha;  
theAlpha = .3;

THis doesn’t work.