# Variables passed thru HTML
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**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variables-passed-thru-html/187104 "2006-04-26T18:11:03Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Pomme\_](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pomme_)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/variables-passed-thru-html/187104/1 "2006-04-26T18:11:03Z")
ok, here’s another mind-boggler.
I have an HTML page that passes a variable, the easy way.
This is the HTML generated by Flash, to which I’ve added the part in \*\*bold \*\*(that is, P1=BARTHEZ, thus passing the variable P1 to flash, whose value is BARTHEZ
```auto
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```
In my flash movie, I have a text field named “player”.
In my code, I have
```auto
_root.player.text = P1
```
When I launch the HTML page, the field is correctly filled with “BARTHEZ” in my flash movie.
Now…
if I code
```auto
_root.player.text = P1
if (P1 == undefined){
_root.gotoAndStop(3)
}
else _root.gotoAndStop(4)
```
it should work just fine, but I always get to frame 3, even when the player.text displays “BARTHEZ”
Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated…