# Input text box fill color
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 22, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707 "2003-10-22T17:53:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@sebjo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebjo)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/1 "2003-10-22T17:53:46Z")
how do you set the color for the fill of a input text box.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/2 "2003-10-22T17:57:33Z")
i’m not sure how you would do that, but what i would do is to put a colored shape over top of the textbox. An Illusion of sorts.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/3 "2003-10-22T18:07:03Z")
you can do this with:
[AS]TextField.backgroundColor[/AS]
the color is only visible if the textfield has a border.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/4 "2003-10-22T18:10:57Z")
Thanks guys!
If I use Actionscript can I control the fill and border with a numeric color value? How?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/5 "2003-10-22T18:25:01Z")
let’s say your textfield has a instancename “box”
[AS]box.borderColor = 0xFF0000;
box.backgroundColor = 0x0000FF;[/AS]
will give you a red border and a blue background
scotty;)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/6 "2003-10-22T18:27:10Z")
I had the fill color of the input text box transparent but somehow changed it to white. Can anyone tell me how i can get it transparent again so I can place it over a colored shape
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/7 "2003-10-22T18:28:02Z")
Thanks scotty
I’ll try that now:)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/8 "2003-10-22T18:32:07Z")
no problem and succes!😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/9 "2003-10-22T18:39:13Z")
Hey Scotty
How can I convert a number like #515671 (from flash) into the # you are using in the actionscript? What system do these # your using stand for?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/10 "2003-10-22T18:45:00Z")
the '0x" tells flash that it is hexadecimal
so if you have in your Colormixer in flash #FF9934, you put in AS: 0xFF9934
scotty
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/11 "2003-10-22T18:54:00Z")
Works fine now
love it!
Much Thanks
😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-box-fill-color/33707/12 "2003-10-22T18:58:47Z")
:thumb: