# Count down from input value to zero without timer extensions
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [August 29, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060 "2020-08-29T03:55:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@gayathri.jayakumare5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gayathri.jayakumare5)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/1 "2020-08-29T03:55:46Z")
on button click, I want to count down from input value in a label, to 0. without any timer extension or anything. The solution has to basic as this is for kids.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/2 "2020-08-29T04:24:31Z")
Can you say more about how this might work?
Every action in Thunkable has to have a trigger. The trigger could be a timer value changing, a screen opening, a button being clicked, etc. But without a trigger, there is nothing to create an action.
What trigger do you have in mind? From what you wrote, I’m not sure if you want the input value to reduce by 1 each time the button is clicked or to – somehow – count down when the button is clicked once.
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### Author:  [@gayathri.jayakumare5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gayathri.jayakumare5)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/3 "2020-08-29T05:03:18Z")
I want to count down as a result of button click
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### Author:  [@gayathri.jayakumare5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gayathri.jayakumare5)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/4 "2020-08-29T05:09:24Z")
[https://x.thunkable.com/copy/732c8e4bc3df05ace1ce35b6cdb9ac8b](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/732c8e4bc3df05ace1ce35b6cdb9ac8b)
Something like this. This doesn’t work, I want to build on this.
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/5 "2020-08-29T06:46:26Z")
Check it 
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### Author:  [@gayathri.jayakumare5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gayathri.jayakumare5)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/6 "2020-08-29T08:42:01Z")
Great! thank worked perfectly! Could you please explain why you have set text\_input + 0?
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/7 "2020-08-29T09:07:52Z")
This is necessary to convert a string to a numeric type
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### Author:  [@gayathri.jayakumare5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gayathri.jayakumare5)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/8 "2020-08-29T09:24:07Z")
okay, understood. didn’t know it’s needed in thunkable too. thank you!
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/count-down-from-input-value-to-zero-without-timer-extensions/777060/9 "2024-11-08T12:24:22Z")