# Making a Textfield keep focus

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-textfield-keep-focus/326391>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 11, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-textfield-keep-focus/326391 "2011-12-11T12:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandomComm3nt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@RandomComm3nt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RandomComm3nt)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-textfield-keep-focus/326391/1 "2011-12-11T12:19:34Z")

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What I basically want to do is create a Textfield that takes user input, even if they have clicked somewhere else on the screen.

As I understand it, clicking on another object will cause the Textfield to lose focus and no longer take input. Is there a way around this?

Thanks in advance 🙂