# Duplicate textbox

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-textbox/116672>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 20, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-textbox/116672 "2004-07-20T14:44:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dudeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@dudeman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dudeman)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-textbox/116672/1 "2004-07-20T14:44:27Z")

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hey… I want to duplicate a textbox and still have it in the root, thats why I don’t use duplicateMovieClip… can anyone tell me a cool method on how to duplicate or make input boxes, that actually have seperate var names?

I was thinking making a loop, and the set var name would be “ord” + i… anyone follow? Sorry for being so point

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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:** [July 20, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-textbox/116672/2 "2004-07-20T15:30:08Z")

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nvm friend helped me out  
thanks

num\_textfields = 10;  
fields\_array = Array();  
for (i=0; i\<num\_textfields; i++) {  
\_root.createTextField(“textfield”+i+"\_txt", i, 0, i\*30, 200, 25);  
\_root[“textfield”+i+"\_txt"].type = “input”;  
\_root[“textfield”+i+"\_txt"].border = 1;  
fields\_array.push(\_root[“textfield”+i+"\_txt"]);  
}