# Textbox background

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textbox-background/13754>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textbox-background/13754 "2003-02-17T20:35:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mooler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mooler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mooler)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textbox-background/13754/1 "2003-02-17T20:35:42Z")

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Gabbagabba hey

Easy one here but I forgot how to do this and it riddles me. How do you change the background to your dynamic and static textboxes. Think I did it a while ago but as I said it riddles me now ☹

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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:** [February 17, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textbox-background/13754/2 "2003-02-17T23:46:04Z")

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Give your text box an instance name of “yourtextbox” for example and paste the following script on the first frame of your movie. “0x00ccff” is where you place the color hex code in case you didn’t know.😛

```php
_level0.yourtextbox.backgroundColor = "0x00ccff"

```

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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:** [February 18, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textbox-background/13754/3 "2003-02-18T09:42:38Z")

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Yup… Also, don’t forget that you have to have a border property set to true or border icon clicked for the text field property to set the background color…

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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:** [February 18, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textbox-background/13754/4 "2003-02-18T20:39:26Z")

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Thx alot!!!