# What is the difference between static and instance methods in Actionscript 3.0?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-static-and-instance-methods-in-actionscript-3-0/302529 "2010-01-02T17:55:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-static-and-instance-methods-in-actionscript-3-0/302529/1 "2010-01-02T17:55:46Z")

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Hi,

Asking a question here in this forum someone from here suggested me to changed one of my methods to static and it worked for what I was trying to do but I would like to know what is the difference between static and instance method.

What is the difference between static and instance methods?

Can someone be so kind and explain this a little bit?

Thanks a lot!