# Dynamic Text in a movie clip
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip/111398
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 26, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip/111398 "2004-05-26T15:55:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@stermer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stermer)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip/111398/1 "2004-05-26T15:55:18Z")
so i have a this movie clip, inside the movie clip i am dynamically loading images into little movie clips and i wanna dynamically load text into text fields in the clip as well. currently i am using this code to load the text into the fields, but it’s not working.
loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load("…/images/news.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
myNews.html = true;
myNews.htmlText = \_root.one.city1;
};
it is cause i can’t trace a path to a text field like i can a movie clip?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip/111398/2 "2004-05-26T15:58:57Z")
I think the problem is with this line:
> myNews.htmlText = \_root.one.city1
You are using the path to a movie clip instead of the variable in your text file?
Are you using the tutorial from Kirupa? In the example there it is written as:
> newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
where myNews is the variable in the text file. So the .txt starts out as
> myNews=this is the text in my text file etc.
Hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip/111398/3 "2004-05-26T18:19:47Z")
i found out if i just gave the text field a var name, then it worked fine, so i didn’t have the issue i was having. thanks though 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-in-a-movie-clip/111398/4 "2004-05-26T18:23:25Z")
That’s funny, that was going to be my second suggestion. 😉