# Not able to access Textfield variable

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/not-able-to-access-textfield-variable/167086>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 25, 2005, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/not-able-to-access-textfield-variable/167086 "2005-10-25T11:20:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![superprg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@superprg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/superprg)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/not-able-to-access-textfield-variable/167086/1 "2005-10-25T11:20:52Z")

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I have this textfield in my frame by instance name txt\_Tno  
I used trace(txt\_Tno);  
And all I get is txt\_Tno as output  
Any idea why?