# The text coordinate

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-text-coordinate/117765>\
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**Created:** [July 30, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-text-coordinate/117765 "2004-07-30T02:27:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![karena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@karena](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/karena)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-text-coordinate/117765/1 "2004-07-30T02:27:55Z")

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i have a input text to let user key in text…  
i want to mark a tick beside any “a” that the user key .  
So i want my movie clip(tick) appear just beside the “a” the user key in…  
how do i know the coordinate of “a”?