# Setting focus?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-focus/33355>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 18, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-focus/33355 "2003-10-18T06:01:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![maroof\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@maroof\_d](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/maroof_d)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-focus/33355/1 "2003-10-18T06:01:03Z")

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have the following organistion of mc’s.

textArea\_mc: contains an Input textfield named textBox

selector\_mc: square shaped mc

main\_mc: (Nested Clip)  
selector\_mc  
textArea\_mc

i’m doing hitTest and getting name of mc on which the mouse is there.  
when it’s textArea\_mc, i want to setfocus to it for editing text??  
How???  
Please Help me.  
Thanx,

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-focus/33355/2 "2003-10-20T05:18:48Z")

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Thanx for the reply, but i have already tried that long before…Never worked!!!  
is there an alternative?  
Thanx in advance