# Renaming a dynamic text field?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 21, 2004, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911 "2004-09-21T09:17:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Hommer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hommer)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911/1 "2004-09-21T09:17:23Z")
How do I change the instance name of a dynamic text field (via action script that is)?!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911/2 "2004-09-21T13:13:24Z")
> [@Hommer](#):
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> How do I change the instance name of a dynamic text field (via action script that is)?!
textfield instance name myText
myText.\_name = “myothertext”;
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911/3 "2004-09-21T13:58:13Z")
> [@stringy](#):
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> textfield instance name myText
> myText.\_name = “myothertext”;
Cool, thanx.
I presume i can also rename movie clips that way?!
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But what if the text field does not have a name?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911/4 "2004-09-21T14:11:53Z")
I guess I would ask why you would want to change the name of a dynamic text field?
And if your text field doesn’t have a name how are you going to reference it to rename it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/renaming-a-dynamic-text-field/64911/5 "2004-09-21T14:34:17Z")
> [@Hommer](#):
>
> Cool, thanx.
> I presume i can also rename movie clips that way?!
>
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> But what if the text field does not have a name?
Its a good question from Green L and a little unusual to rename textfields.
Yes you can do it with mcs
To name something without an instance name do something like this
for (var obj in this) {
if (this[obj] instanceof Textfield) {
this[obj].\_name = “myText”;
}
}
if you have several textfields, maybe you could pick some property by which to differentiate.
eg/in the loop above
this[obj].\_name = “myText”+Math.round(this[obj].\_x);