# Dynamic text in a movie clip? Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip-help/251550>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 10, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip-help/251550 "2008-02-10T02:14:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![hazelgale7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cc9497/32.png) [@hazelgale7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hazelgale7)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip-help/251550/1 "2008-02-10T02:14:19Z")

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I’m trying to put a site together in which the owners can update their text. I’ve done this before on other sites without any problems but I cant get it to work this time. I’m assuming this is because this time the text field is within a movie clip rather than in the \_root directly (i’m also having problems with input text. presumably for the same reason). This is the code I’m using to call up the .txt file:

loadVariables(“beginners.txt”,"\_root");

I’ve tried putting the name of the movie clip and instance name of the movie clip in which the text field is embedded in there except “\_root” but I’m still having no joy.

Can anyone help?