# Quick question about textfield height

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-textfield-height/259301>\
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**Created:** [May 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-textfield-height/259301 "2008-05-03T02:20:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![findAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@findAll](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/findAll)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-about-textfield-height/259301/1 "2008-05-03T02:20:21Z")

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I have a textfield (first\_text) in which I load text from myText.txt. I also have

```
 ActionScript Code:
 [FONT=Courier New][LEFT]first_text.[COLOR=#0000ff]autoSize[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#000000] **true** [/COLOR];

```

[/LEFT]  
[/FONT]What I need is to get the first\_text.\_height AFTER the text is loaded in, to use it in building a scrollbar with a thumb that has a hight according to the height of the textfield.  
I also tried to put the textfield inside a movieclip and get the movieclip’s height instead the textfield height, but I still don’t know how to get that number…  
I also attached a test fla…

could anyone give me a quick help?