# Creating forms

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-forms/11230
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**Created:** [January 14, 2003, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-forms/11230 "2003-01-14T10:50:12Z")
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### Author: ![mavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@mavis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mavis)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2003, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-forms/11230/1 "2003-01-14T10:50:12Z")

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how do i create a form -i.e. insert input text in flash 5?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-forms/11230/2 "2003-01-15T01:33:07Z")

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create a textfield and in the Text Options panel, theres a drop down that will let you select between static, input and dynamic text. You would want input which lets users change the contents of that text.

Also, in doing so, be sure to remember to give that text a variable name. This is how you get the the text from that text in flash. For instance, if you used the variable name myText and you made the input textfield in the main movie timeline, to get the value of that textfield, you would use

\_root.myText