# Targeting A dynamic Textfield

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-a-dynamic-textfield/148344
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**Created:** [May 19, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-a-dynamic-textfield/148344 "2005-05-19T02:32:46Z")
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### Author: ![matthewjumps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-a-dynamic-textfield/148344/1 "2005-05-19T02:32:46Z")

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Ive been talking about this in another thread, but I guess its a better idea to start a new thread to ask this question: How can I target a named instance of a dynamic text field that is inside a button, which is inside a movie clip, which is on the root timeline, from a frame in the root timeline?

I tried \_root.movieclipname.buttonname.txtfieldname but that doesnt work…and to make issues a little more complicated, its not a static movie clip, but a duplicate that needs to be targeted every iteration of a ‘for’ loop.

I thought it would be something like -

\_root.movieclipname\*.buttonname.txtfieldname

But thats not working…How can I target that textfield?