# Referring to premade textbox in object

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**Created:** [May 22, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referring-to-premade-textbox-in-object/322464 "2011-05-22T07:46:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referring-to-premade-textbox-in-object/322464/1 "2011-05-22T07:46:24Z")

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I have an mc “mc” that I made in flash. It has a text box in it with instance name “txt1”. I dimmed a variable _var mc:MovieClip = new mc()_ and used the add child method to add it to stage. Now I want to refer to the text box in the mc. I tried _mc.getChildByName(txt1).text=“abc”_ but it gives me errors. How do I refer to that text box. Please tell if there is even a way to do so or not.