# How come I can't add a TextField to a MovieClip?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-come-i-cant-add-a-textfield-to-a-movieclip/284631
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 21, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-come-i-cant-add-a-textfield-to-a-movieclip/284631 "2009-03-21T03:40:51Z")
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### Author: ![bortiquai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@bortiquai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bortiquai)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-come-i-cant-add-a-textfield-to-a-movieclip/284631/1 "2009-03-21T03:40:51Z")

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I’ve got a MovieClip on the MainTimeline: mc\_back

I want to dynamcially add textfields to it:

txt:TextField = new TextField();  
txt.Height = 20;  
txt.Width = 60;  
txt.text = ‘This is Some Text’

mc\_back.addChild(txt);

It’s not working. No errors, no nothing, but the textFields don’t show up when I run it.