# Get text from clone text field

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-text-from-clone-text-field/1042244
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-text-from-clone-text-field/1042244 "2021-01-05T22:29:36Z")
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### Author: ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 11:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-text-from-clone-text-field/1042244/11 "2021-01-06T11:39:07Z")

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> [@funhall](#):
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> If I use this block where I clone the whole row with th text field inside. It DONT work.

That seems odd - let me see if I can reproduce this…it sounds more like a caching/updating issue?

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UPDATE:

Ok, this is where I’m at so far:  
[https://x.thunkable.com/copy/404af347cc6cfc021004179ff8d55ffb](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/404af347cc6cfc021004179ff8d55ffb)

I’m able to clone the rows and get the component IDs from the cloned TextInputs, but for some reason I can’t edit the text in any of the cloned Text Inputs.

 ![Screenshot 2021-01-06 at 11.55.30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/c/a/ca6409649f74a78a14958c34da96f28bdc83730f.png)

Will follow up with the team about this for your today @funhall

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