# How to focus a textfield inside a movieclip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-focus-a-textfield-inside-a-movieclip/269654>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 30, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-focus-a-textfield-inside-a-movieclip/269654 "2008-08-30T03:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![bluemagica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@bluemagica](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bluemagica)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-focus-a-textfield-inside-a-movieclip/269654/1 "2008-08-30T03:24:54Z")

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In normal situation, that is when putting the textfield on the main timeline, i can use  
mytxt.stage.focus=mytxt;

But what if the textfield is inside a movieclip? How do i set focus to it?