# TextArea.text = undefined

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-text-undefined/230519>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 26, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-text-undefined/230519 "2007-06-26T21:56:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![WearDark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@WearDark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/WearDark)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-text-undefined/230519/1 "2007-06-26T21:56:53Z")

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I have a movieclip with a TextArea inside it with the instance name writeUps\_txt.

The movieclip is added to the stage with actionscript and I want to set the text inside writeUps\_txt after the movieclip is added to the stage.

Why won’t the following work?

infoPages\*.writeUps\_txt.text = blurbs\*;

I’ve checked everything and all of my arrays contain the right objects so everything is kosher there. To add to the problem, this line:

infoPages\*.title\_txt.text = locations\*;

does work and the only difference is that title\_txt is dynamic text.

Is there a difference between how dynamic text and textAreas behave in this regard?

Any ideas?

Cheers.