# How to add movieclip inside textfield

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-add-movieclip-inside-textfield/330367>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 9, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-add-movieclip-inside-textfield/330367 "2013-01-09T13:13:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vincentas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dc4da7/32.png) [@Vincentas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Vincentas)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-add-movieclip-inside-textfield/330367/1 "2013-01-09T13:13:31Z")

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Hi,  
I would like to add a movieclip to a textfield. The objective is to be able to scroll the movie clip, since the uiscrollbar only works for textfield, i think my solution to scrolling the movie clip is to put it inside a textfield.

I have tried something like:

myText.addChild(myClip); but failed with error: 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild through a reference with static type flash.text:TextField.